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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.
Dufek
3781
1986 RG1
Discovered by 2.09.1986 by A. Mrkos on Klet observatory
MPC 26424 (5.01.1996)
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3781;old=0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Named in honor of George Dufek, an associate of Richard E. Byrd and for a long time the leader of American expeditions in Antarctica.