asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
from the outer region of the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...
, 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, lat ...
at the South Bohemian
Kleť Observatory
Kleť Observatory (; 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, the observatory is at an ...
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 ...