98127 Vilgusová
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98127 Vilgusová is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on September 24, 2000 by Petr Pravec
and Lenka Šarounová
at Ondřejov
. It was named in August 2008 after Hedvika Vilgusová, a Czech painter and illustrator of books for children.
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 September 24, 2000 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...
and Lenka Šarounová
Lenka Šarounová
Lenka Kotková is a Czech astronomer.She is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. She works at Observatoř Ondřejov , located near Prague...
at Ondřejov
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 was named in August 2008 after Hedvika Vilgusová, a Czech painter and illustrator of books for children.