Alexandre Ananoff (1910-1992) was a Russian-French space expert, author of L´Astronautique (1950) and organizer of the first International Astronautical Congress. In 1950 he was the first recipient of the Hermann Oberth Medal, and he was an advisor on fellow writer Hergé's Adventures of Tintin on the Moon.
Discovered on 26-7-1992 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.