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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.
Gershwin
8249
1980 GG
Discovered by 13.04.1980 by A. Mrkos on Klet observatory
MPC 36946 (23.11.1999)
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8249;old=0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) was also an accomplished pianist. In his compositions the techniques and forms of art music are blended in varying degrees with the stylistic nuances and techniques of popular music and jazz. The name was suggested by J. Tichá and M. Tichý.
