Bohsternberk

(1984 BS )
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NOW @ 9 AQU 38
FOUND @ 3 LEO 51
 
Inclination: 6.383
Eccentricity: 0.106
Period: 3.212 years
AU 2.177
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

27.1.1984 21:10 Klet 14e17 48n53 observations 1


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Named in memory of Bohumil Sternberk (1897–1983), outstanding Czech astronomer and astrophysicist. He worked in a wide variety of fields, including photometry of variable stars, and he established the modern time service in Czechoslovakia. On the evening of 1930 Mar. 18, at the Stará Ďala Observatory (O’Gyalla {see planet  (1259)}, now Hurbanovo), he made the first deliberate astrometric observations of Pluto in Europe.< Sternberk served as long-time director of the Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1954–1968) and as a vice-president of the IAU (1958–1964). (M 34628) _ _.


Discovered on 27-1-1984 in Klet by Mrkos, A.

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