17776 Troska
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17776 Troska is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 22, 1998 by Petr Pravec
at the Ondřejov Observatory
. It is named after Czech sci-fi writer J. M. Troska
.
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 March 22, 1998 by Petr Pravec
Petr Pravec
Petr Pravec is a Czech astronomer, born in Třinec, a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids using lightcurve photometric studies. He is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations called BinAst to look for multiplicity in the NEA and inner main-belt populations...
at the 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....
. It is named after Czech sci-fi writer J. M. Troska
Jan Matzal Troska
Jan Matzal , known under pen names J. M. Troska and Jan Merfort, was a Czech writer....
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