28878 Segner
Encyclopedia
28878 Segner is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on May 26, 2000 by P. Kusnirák
at Ondrejov
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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 May 26, 2000 by P. Kusnirák
Peter Kušnirák
Peter Kušnirák is a Slovak astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and minor planets, such as his 1999 discovery of the minor planets 21656 Knuth and 20256 Adolfneckař, both located in the Aquarius constellation at the time. He is based out of numerous observatories in the Czech...
at Ondrejov
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....
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