Zoran Knežević (astronomer)

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13 November 1980

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Zoran Knežević (Template:Lang-sr-Cyrl; born 23 August 1949 in Osijek) is a Serbian astronomer, who has been publishing since 1982. He is the current president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) since 2023. His major scientific contributions are in the field of movement of small Solar System bodies, their proper elements and perturbations, as well as the identification and evolution of asteroid families. As of 2002, he is the director of Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and the president of Serbian National Astronomy Committee.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and honors

Asteroid 3900 Knežević, discovered by Edward Bowell, is named after him.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 23 December 1988 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

See also

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• Vincenzo Zappalà

External links

• Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3900) Knežević, Lutz Schmadel
• Short biography, www.astronomija.co.rs Template:In lang
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