129259 Tapolca
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129259 Tapolca is an outer main-belt
minor planet
. It was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky
and Dorottya Szám at the Piszkéstető Station
in the Mátra
mountains of Hungary on August 25, 2005. It is named after Tapolca
, a town in the Veszprém County of Hungary and Szám's birthplace.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
minor planet
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
. It was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky
Krisztián Sárneczky
Krisztián Sárneczky is a Hungarian amateur astronomer, asteroid hunter and secretary of the Hungarian Astronomical Association and member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers , leader of the Comet Section of the "HAA", and is a contributor in the editorial work of Hungarian...
and Dorottya Szám at the Piszkéstető Station
Piszkésteto Station
The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an observatory in Mátra Mountains, Hungary, first built in 1958. The station is a station of Konkoly Observatory, Budapest. It has IAU codes 461 and 561...
in the Mátra
Mátra
Mátra is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger. The country's highest peak, Kékestető , belongs to this mountain range....
mountains of Hungary on August 25, 2005. It is named after Tapolca
Tapolca
Tapolca is a town in Veszprém county, Hungary, close to Lake Balaton. It is located at around .The town has a separate district approximately 5 km to the East called Tapolca-Diszel.- The Lake Cave :...
, a town in the Veszprém County of Hungary and Szám's birthplace.