Searching database of minor planet names
The catalog of asteroids discovered at Klet can be searched in two ways. In the first one, pick a starting letter of asteroid's name from the listed alphabet. In the second way, start writing an expression to search (diacritics is allowed), and after at least three letters are typed, the results are automatically listed. The search can also be performed only on asteroid names, catalogue numbers, date of discovery or names of the discoverers.
Méchain
21785
1999 SS2
Discovered by 21.09.1999 by M. Tichý on Klet observatory
MPC 46012 (24.06.2002)
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=21785;old=0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Pierre Francois André Méchain (1744-1804) discovered many comets and deep-sky objects. A colleague and friend of Messier, he contributed much to Messier's catalogue of nebulae. Much of Méchain's career involved geodetic measurements along the Paris meridian, with the idea of defining the meter.