Christian Pollas
Christian Pollas is a French astronomer an discoverer of minor planets and observer of Supernovae.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 26 asteroids, some co-discovered with Eric W. Elst, including notably the three near-Earth asteroids, 4179 Toutatis and 9950 ESA, which belong to the Aten, Apollo and Amor group of asteroids, respectively.
The main-belt asteroid 4892 Chrispollas is named in his honor.4179 Toutatis | January 4, 1989 |
5164 Mullo | November 20, 1984 |
7296 Lamarck | August 8, 1992 |
8009 Béguin | January 25, 1989 |
9950 ESA | November 8, 1990 |
14015 Senancour | January 16, 1994 |
14016 Steller | January 16, 1994 |
| November 20, 1984 |
16674 Birkeland | January 16, 1994 |
| January 16, 1994 |
| January 16, 1994 |
29311 Lesire | January 16, 1994 |
30936 Basra | January 16, 1994 |
30937 Bashkirtseff | January 16, 1994 |