Yulij Borisovich Khariton (1904– ) is a physicist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He worked in nuclear physics, on combustion and explosion, and during 1939–1941, together with Ya. B. Zel’dovich {see planet (11438)}, calculated the chain reaction for the fission of uranium. (M 46009) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1976 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.