Iván Almár (born April 21, 1932 in
Budapest
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) is a
Hungarian astronomer
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.
He proposed the
San Marino Scale as a means of assessing risks related to
extraterrestrial
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Science
* Extraterrestrial life, life that occurs outside of Earth and that probably did not originate from Earth
Media
* ''Extraterrestrial'' (TV program), a program on the National Geographic Channel
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communication.
Almár also serves on the Advisory Council of
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
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. Asteroid
191856 Almáriván, discovered by Hungarian astronomer
Krisztián Sárneczky
Krisztián Sárneczky (born 6 November 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian teacher of geography and prolific discoverer of minor planets and supernovae, researching at Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary. He is a board member ...
at the
Piszkéstető Station
The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an astronomical observatory in Mátraszentimre in Mátra Mountains, about northeast of Hungary's capital Budapest. It is a station of Konkoly Observatory, first built in 1958. It ha ...
in 2004, was named in his honor.
The official was published by the
Minor Planet Center
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Funct ...
on 10 December 2011 ().
References
20th-century Hungarian astronomers
1932 births
Living people
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