Petar Đurković

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Minor planets discovered: 2<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
1605 Milankovitch 13 April 1936 Template:MPC
1700 Zvezdara 26 August 1940 Template:MPC

Petar Đurković (Петар Ђурковић, 1908–1981) was a Serbian astronomer known for discovering two asteroids in 1936 and 1940, respectively.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> One is named for the Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković,<ref name="springer-Milankovitch" /> the other for Zvezdara, the hill in Belgrade where the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory is located.<ref name="springer-Zvezdara" /><ref name="Serbian" />

Asteroid 1555 Dejan, discovered by Fernand Rigaux, was named after Đurković's son (Template:Small).<ref name="springer-Dejan" />

Đurković was the director of Belgrade Observatory 1965-1970.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also president of the Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković, the oldest astronomical society in the Balkans.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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