Petr Pravec, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Czech astronomist
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1967
Place of Birth: Třinec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: Czech Republic
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Petr Pravec
- Petr Pravec (born September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, born in Trinec, Czech Republic.Pravec is a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids, expert in photometric observations and rotational lightcurves at Ondrejov Observatory.
- He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 350 numbered minor planets, and is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations called "BinAst" to look for multiplicity in the near-Earth objects and inner main-belt populations. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.The main-belt asteroid 4790 Petrpravec, discovered by Eleanor Helin in 1988, is named after him.
- The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 June 1997 (M.P.C.
- 30095).
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