Vokrouhlicky

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20.11.1981 00:00 Anderson Mesa 111w32 35n5 observations 1


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Named in honor of David Vokrouhlický (b. 1966), a Czech physicist at Charles University, Prague, who has developed new physical models for the nongravitational forces acting on small minor planets and meteoroids. In particular, Vokrouhlický has studied the so-called Yarkovsky effect, which causes a slow orbital drift into main-belt resonances and is an important mechanism for transporting meteorites to Earth. Name proposed and citation written by P. Farinella.


Discovered on 20-11-1981 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.

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