23199 Bezdek is a main belt 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...

 with an orbital period

Orbital period

The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...

 of 1936.3988715 days (5.30 years).

The asteroid was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until...

 project in Socorro, New Mexico

New Mexico

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 on September 3, 2000. It is named after Daniel Karoly Bezdek, who won second place at the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. His father Károly Bezdek

Károly Bezdek

Károly Bezdek , is a mathematician and professor and a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary. Bezdek is also a professor on leave from University of Pannonia and Eötvös Loránd University....

 is a professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1966 the U of C is composed of 14 faculties and more than 85 research institutes and centres.More than 25,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students are currently...

.