(9008) Bohšternberk = 1984 BS
Discovered 1984 Jan. 27 by A. Mrkos at Kleť.
Named in memory of Bohumil Šternberk (1897-1983), outstanding
Czech astronomer and astrophysicist. He worked in a wide variety of fields,
including photometry of variable stars, and he established the modern time
service in Czechoslovakia. On the evening of 1930 Mar. 18, at the Stará Ďala Observatory
(O'Gyalla, now Hurbanovo), he made the first deliberate astrometric
observations of Pluto in Europe.
Šternberk served as long-time director of the Astronomical
Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1954-1968) and as a
vice-President of the IAU (1958-1964).
Name suggested by J. Tichá, M. Tichý and Z. Moravec, who made observations
of this minor planet at Kleť during its oppositions in 1997 and 1998.
(MPC 34628 – 1999 May 4)
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