Christian Pollas

Christian Pollas (b. 1947) is a French astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and observer of Supernovae.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 26 asteroids, some co-discovered with Eric W. Elst, including notably the three near-Earth asteroids , 4179 Toutatis and 9950 ESA, which belong to the Aten, Apollo and Amor group of asteroids, respectively.
The main-belt asteroid 4892 Chrispollas is named in his honor.