1206 Numerowia (1931 UH) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 18 1931 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It was named after Boris Vasil’evich Numerov a Russian astronomer and geophysicist who was executed for espionage by the Soviet Union in 1941. The accusation was based on the fact that a German had named the asteroid after him.
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