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The 20th century

1,560 inventions and discoveries

Invention or discovery	Date	Inventor or discoverer	Type
18244 Anneila	September 30, 1973	Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld	asteroid
4962 Vecherka	October 1973	Tamara Smirnova	asteroid
3695 Fiala	October 21, 1973	Henry L. Giclas	asteroid
12659 Schlegel	October 27, 1973	Freimut Börngen	asteroid
18286 Kneipp	October 27, 1973	Freimut Börngen	asteroid
3826 Handel	October 27, 1973	Freimut Börngen	asteroid
5569 Colby	March 22, 1974	Carlos Torres	asteroid
5042 Colpa	June 20, 1974	Félix Aguilar Observatory	asteroid
10261 Nikdollezhalʹ	August 22, 1974	Lyudmila Zhuravlyova	asteroid
4918 Rostropovich	August 24, 1974	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
5359 Markzakharov	August 24, 1974	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
3964 Danilevskij	September 12, 1974	Lyudmila Zhuravlyova	asteroid
3429 Chuvaev	September 19, 1974	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
4879 Zykina	November 12, 1974	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
4981 Sinyavskaya	November 12, 1974	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
Dorado Group	1975	Gérard de Vaucouleurs	galaxy group
3466 Ritina	March 6, 1975	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
3470 Yaronika	March 6, 1975	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
7727 Chepurova	March 8, 1975	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5886 Rutger	June 13, 1975	Félix Aguilar Observatory	asteroid
5497 Sararussell	September 30, 1975	Schelte J. Bus	asteroid
7807 Grier	September 30, 1975	Schelte J. Bus	asteroid
5612 Nevskij	October 3, 1975	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
4880 Tovstonogov	October 14, 1975	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
7856 Viktorbykov	November 1975	Tamara Smirnova	asteroid
18288 Nozdrachev	November 2, 1975	Tamara Smirnova	asteroid
4776 Luyi	November 3, 1975	Harvard College Observatory	asteroid
3965 Konopleva	November 8, 1975	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
4881 Robmackintosh	December 1975	Carlos Torres	asteroid
4725 Milone	December 31, 1975	Félix Aguilar Observatory	asteroid
Media system dependency theory	1976	Melvin Defleur	sociological theory
Orthoebolavirus zairense	1976	Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum	taxon
Aten asteroid	January 7, 1976	Eleanor F. Helin	asteroid family
16356 Univbalttech	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
2849 Shklovskij	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
2922 Dikanʹka	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
4683 Veratar	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5245 Maslyakov	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
7910 Aleksola	April 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5016 Migirenko	April 2, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5707 Shevchenko	April 2, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
3493 Stepanov	April 3, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
3856 Lutskij	August 26, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5989 Sorin	August 26, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
3517 Tatianicheva	September 24, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
3966 Cherednichenko	September 24, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
4777 Aksenov	September 24, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
2745 San Martín	September 25, 1976	Félix Aguilar Observatory	asteroid
4726 Federer	September 25, 1976	Harvard College Observatory	asteroid
3159 Prokofʹev	October 26, 1976	Tamara Smirnova	asteroid
4851 Vodopʹyanova	October 26, 1976	Tamara Smirnova	asteroid
3967 Shekhtelia	December 16, 1976	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
16358 Plesetsk	December 20, 1976	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
Coves del Fem	1977	Marc Boada Ferrer	cave
3578 Carestia	February 11, 1977	Félix Aguilar Observatory	asteroid
4812 Hakuhou	February 18, 1977	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
7509 Gamzatov	March 9, 1977	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5413 Smyslov	March 13, 1977	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5084 Gnedin	March 26, 1977	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
4550 Royclarke	April 24, 1977	Schelte J. Bus	asteroid