14124 Kamil
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14124 Kamil is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on August 28, 1998 by Lenka Kotková at Ondřejov Observatory
. The asteroid was named in honour of Czech
astronomer Kamil Hornoch
, in the time of the discovery a successful amateur
variable star
observer from Lelekovice
, later employed at Ondřejov.
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...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on August 28, 1998 by Lenka Kotková at Ondřejov Observatory
Ondrejov Observatory
The Ondřejov Observatory is the principal observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is located near the village of Ondřejov, 35 km southeast of Prague....
. The asteroid was named in honour of Czech
Czech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...
astronomer Kamil Hornoch
Kamil Hornoch
Kamil Hornoch is a Czech amateur astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. The main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil is named in his honour.-Astronomy:...
, in the time of the discovery a successful amateur
Amateur astronomy
Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the night sky , and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars...
variable star
Variable star
A star is classified as variable if its apparent magnitude as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star's actual luminosity, or to variations in the amount of the star's light that is blocked from reaching Earth...
observer from Lelekovice
Lelekovice
Lelekovice is a village in Brno-Country District, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic. It has a population of 1,571 . The asteroid 167208 Lelekovice was named in its honour on the occasion of the 720th anniversary of its founding, by the co-discoverer Kamil Hornoch, whose birthplace this is.-...
, later employed at Ondřejov.