Mikhail Yakovlevich Marov (1933– ), professor and head of the planetary department at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, is one of the initiators and scientific leaders of research of Venus and Mars from space. He is also currently the president of IAU Division III. (M 46010) _ _.
Discovered on 8-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.