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Eric Walter Elst

Eric Walter Elst was a Belgian astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. As of 2026, the Minor Planet Center ranks him among the top 15 discoverers of minor planets with thousands of discoveries made at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile and at the Rozhen Observatory in Bulgaria during 1986–2005.

Discoveries
Elst is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 3795 numbered minor planets made between 1986 and 2005. Minor planet articles also exist for 12696 Camus, 8116 Jeanperrin, 22740 Rayleigh, 6267 Rozhen and 9951 Tyrannosaurus, among others. } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } == Personal life and death ==
Personal life and death
Elst was born in Kapellen on 30 November 1936. He died in Antwerp on 2 January 2022, at the age of 85. == See also ==
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