Marcin Odlanicki Poczobut, S.J. joins the ever-growing list of Jesuits who have had asteroids named after them!
Asteroid Citation
(191775) Poczobut = 2004 TQ77Discovery: 2004-10-12 / K. Černis, J. Zdanavičius * / Molėtai / 152
Marcin Odlanicki Poczobut (Lithuanian: Martynas Pocobutas, 1728–1810) was a Lithuanian-Polish Jesuit, astronomer and mathematician who was Director of the Vilnius Astronomical Observatory...
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