June 1, 2010 at 11:08am
We proposed to IAU the 2009 QJ5 (225 238) asteroid, discovered by A79 in August 2009, to be named after Bulgarian national hero Hristo Botev. Below is our proposal, which will be hopefully accepted in a late July:
Hristo Botev (1848–1876) was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary and was one of the most significant figures of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement towards the end of the Ottoman rule. Many of his poems are imbued with zeal for liberty and determination. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.
