asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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from the outer region of the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, called ...
, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 23 March 1982, by Czech astronomer
Zdeňka Vávrová
Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer.
She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, late ...
at the South Bohemian
Kleť Observatory
Kleť Observatory ( cz, Hvězdárna Kleť; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleť, near the town of České Budějovice. Constructed in 1957, t ...
in the Czech Republic. The asteroid was named after mathematician
Bohumil Bydžovský
Bohumil Bydžovský (14 March 1880, in Duchcov – 6 May 1969, in Jindřichův Hradec) was a Czech mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and algebra.
Education and career
Bydzovsky in 1898 completed his Abitur at the Academic Gymnasiu ...