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Alexander Dubyago

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Alexander Dmitriyevich Dubyago (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Дубяго; December 5 (18), 1903, Kazan - October 29, 1959, Kazan) was a Soviet astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics, who also discovered the faint periodic comet, C/1921 H1, on April 1921.[1] The lunar crater Dubyago is named after him and his father, Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago.[2]

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  1. ^ G. Lecointe (20 May 1921). "Comète Dubiago (1921c)". Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (in French). 20.
  2. ^ "Dubyago". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.