6830 Johnbackus
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6830 Johnbackus is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on May 5, 1991 by S. Otomo and O. Muramatsu at Kiyosato
. It is named in memory of John Backus
.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on May 5, 1991 by S. Otomo and O. Muramatsu at Kiyosato
Kiyosato, Yamanashi
is a locality in the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan. It is a popular resort area.It is serviced by Kiyosato Station on the Koumi Line.-External links:...
. It is named in memory of John Backus
John Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form , the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax.He also did research in...
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