ИСТИНА

Asteroid 5417 Solovaya = 1981 QT. Discovered 1981 Aug. 24 by L. Brozek at Klet Observatory, Czech Republic Named in honor of Nina A. Solovaya (b.1940), an astronomer in the celestial mechanics department of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow. Her general field of work involves analytical and qualitative methods of celestial mechanics, especially the three-body problem. She has applied the results to triple-star systems, to planetary satellites and to minor planets in the outer part of the main belt. Name proposed by the Klet Observatory. In: Minor Planet IAU Circular 29145, Cambridge, USA. 1997.