7789 Kwiatkowski is a main-belt

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 December 2, 1994 by E. Bowell at Palomar

Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, southeast of Pasadena's Mount Wilson Observatory, in the Palomar Mountain Range. At approximately elevation, it is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology...

. Named in honor of Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Kwiatkowski specializes in detailed photometric observations of minor planets and the computation of shape and pole orientations from lightcurves.

External links

• JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 7789 Kwiatkowski