5757 Tichá
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5757 Tichá is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1838.0559372 days (5.03 years).
The asteroid was discovered on May 6, 1967. It is named after Czech astronomer Jana Tichá
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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 1838.0559372 days (5.03 years).
The asteroid was discovered on May 6, 1967. It is named after Czech astronomer Jana Tichá
Jana Tichá
Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory. She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially Near-Earth objects...
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