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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.

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Stonařov


61208
2000 OD8
Discovered by 30.07.2000 by J. Tichá a M. Tichý on Klet observatory
MPC 59924 (1.06.2007)
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=61208

Stonařov (in German Stannern) is a small town in Moravia where a meteorite fell on 1808 May 22. It was a eucrite, a classification believed to be associated with (4) Vesta. This naming recognizes the 200th anniversary of both the meteorite fall and the discovery of Vesta on 1807 Mar. 29.