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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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Stepling

Number: 6540
Provisore: 1982 SL1
Discovery: Discovered by 16.09.1982 by A. Mrkos on Klet observatory
Reference: MPC 31296 (11.02.1998)
Orbit: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=6540;old=0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

Named in memory of Joseph Stepling (1716-1778), founder and the first director of the astronomical observatory at the Jesuit college in Prague called Klementinum (1751). He was also known for introducing Newtonian physics to Prague. Name suggested by J. Tichá and M. Šolc.