The Sternberg Astronomical Institute, or GAISh, is a research institution in Moscow, Russia, a division of

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. In Russian it is named or , respectively. The institute is named after

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Pavel Karlovich Shternberg. It was founded in 1931, on the site of the observatory established by the university in 1831. The

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asteroid 14789 GAISH, discovered by

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at the

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in 1969, was named in its honour. The official naming citation was published on 6 January 2007 ().

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