- Milorad B. Protić
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Minor planets discovered: 7 1517 Beograd March 20, 1938 1550 Tito November 29, 1937 1554 Yugoslavia September 6, 1940 1564 Srbija October 15, 1936 1675 Simonida March 20, 1938 2244 Tesla October 22, 1952 2348 Michkovitch January 10, 1939 Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Б. Протић; August 6, 1911, Belgrade - October 29, 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer.
He has discovered a handful of asteroids. 1675 Simonida is named after queen Simonida, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin; 2348 Michkovitch is named after Vojislav V. Mišković (1892–1976), member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory.
Asteroid 22278 Protitch (discovered by Debehogne) is named after him, while 1724 Vladimir (discovered by Delporte) is named after his grandson. 5397 Vojislava (discovered by Oshima) is named after Vojislava Protić-Benišek, his daughter, three times director of the Belgrade Observatory and a member of its staff since 1972, where she continues her father's work on celestial mechanics and minor planets, together with her husband and son.
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