• Petr Pravec (born September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, born in Třinec, Czech Republic. Pravec is a prolific discoverer...
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  • Pravec could mean: Petr Pravec, a Czech astronomer Pravec, Bulgarian computers produced from 1979 until the early 1990s Pravec, a town in central-western...
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    forms a binary system. The moon was discovered on 20 November 2003 by Petr Pravec in collaboration with other astronomers worldwide. Dimorphos has a diameter...
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    her main role was the observation of near-earth asteroids, along with Petr Pravec and Peter Kušnirák she identified a large proportion of known binary...
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  • an albedo of 0.276. In 2012, a revision of the published WISE-data by Petr Pravec gave a diameter of 2.981 kilometers and an albedo of 0.2389. The Collaborative...
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  • 2001, mostly in collaboration with Czech astronomers Lenka Kotková and Petr Pravec. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under M. Wolf: he is...
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  • automotive engineer Křišťan of Prachatice, medieval astronomer and physician Petr Pravec, astronomer Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist Karel Presl, botanist Stanislaus...
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    retrograde rotator. Optical lightcurve analysis by Lenka Šarounová and Petr Pravec shows that its rotation period is 2.1216±0.0001 hours. Due to its short...
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    of 2004 FH were obtained from photometric observations by astronomers Petr Pravec, Stefano Sposetti and Raoul Behrend. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation...
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  • construction of a model of the object. Optical observations were conducted by Petr Pravec, Marek Wolf, and Lenka Šarounová during March and April 1996. It was...
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    main-belt asteroid 17776 Troska discovered in 1998 by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec from the Ondřejov Observatory was named after the writer. [1] The name...
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  • 123647 Tomáško[2] 31 December 2000 (165712) 2001 QV33[2] 17 August 2001 (334076) 2001 QW33[2] 17 August 2001 1 with Petr Pravec 2 with Peter Kušnirák...
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  • Lightcurve Link (CALL) and Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2013) Rotational lightcurve plot of (3850) Peltier by Petr Pravec, Ondrejov Asteroid Photometry...
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    term tektite. The asteroid 12002 Suess, discovered by Czech astronomers Petr Pravec and Lenka Kotková in 1996, was named in his honor. Zur Kenntniss des...
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    at the CERGA Observatory in Caussols, France. Lightcurve studies by Petr Pravec in 1998 suggest that the assumed S-type asteroid has an elongated shape...
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  • (Jean-Louis Heudier, Français) 4713 Steel (Duncan Steel) 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec) 4859 Fraknoi (Andrew Fraknoi) 4866 Badillo (Fr. Victor L. Badillo, Jesuit...
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  • (U=2), superseding a lightcurve previously obtained by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory in 2003, which gave a shorter period of 29 hours...
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    observations were reported by three independent Czech observers: astronomer Petr Pravec, Pavel Klásek, and Lucie Bulíčková. According to their report, the event...
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    lightcurve of this asteroid was obtained from photometric observations by Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová at Ondřejov Observatory. Lightcurve analysis gave...
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    Palomar Observatory in California, and later named for Czech astronomer Petr Pravec. Petrpravec is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population...
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    types. Several rotational lightcurves were obtained by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec and American astronomer Brian Warner between 1998 and 2014. Lightcurve...
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    United States, Lorenzo Franco at Balzaretto Observatory (A81), Italy, and Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory, Czech Republic. Lightcurve analysis gave...
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  • Petr Pravec. Between 1998 and 2016, several rotational lightcurves of McAuliffe were obtained from photometric observations taken by astronomers Petr...
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  • complete history of the program. Asteroid 33377 Večerníček, discovered by Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory on 12 February 1999, was named after the animated...
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    (titled Nagano) about the Czech team's gold medal victory, and in 2003, Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová named an asteroid (8217 Dominikhašek) in his honour...
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    3671 Dionysus. It was discovered on 27 February 1997, by astronomers Petr Pravec, Marek Wolf, and Lenka Šarounová at Ondřejov Observatory. The satellite...
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  • between 0.19 and 0.44. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts Petr Pravec's revised WISE-data, that is, an albedo of 0.1524 and a diameter of 4...
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    Lazzarin, Monica; Murdoch, Naomi; Okada, Tatsuaki; Palomba, Ernesto; Pravec, Petr; Snodgrass, Colin; Tortora, Paolo; Tsiganis, Kleomenis; Ulamec, Stephan;...
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    married and had one daughter. The asteroid 17806 Adolfborn, discovered by Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory, is named after him. Born died on 22 May...
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    the Palomar Transient Factory in California, and by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory (U=2/1/2-). Analysis of the best-rated lightcurve...
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