10763 Hlawka
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10763 Hlawka is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 12, 1990 by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg
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It is named after the Austrian mathematician Edmund Hlawka
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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 October 12, 1990 by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg
Tautenburg
Tautenburg, a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia in Germany, houses the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory....
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It is named after the Austrian mathematician Edmund Hlawka
Edmund Hlawka
Edmund Hlawka was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting professor at Princeton University and the Sorbonne...
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