Ľubor Kresák

Ľubor Krešák ( born August 23, 1927 in Topoľčany, † January 20, 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak astronomer.

Krešák discovered two comets: the periodic comets 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and the non-periodic C/1954 M2 ( Krešák - Peltier ). In 1978, he put forward the theory that the Tunguska event could have been triggered by a fragment of the periodic comets Encke.

To his credit, the asteroid (1849 ) Krešák was named after him.