(11339) Orlík = 1996 VM5
Discovered 1996 November 13 by M. Tichý and Z. Moravec at Kleť.
The Gothic castle of Orlík was built on a peninsula in the Vltava
river in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in neo-Gothic style during the
nineteenth century by the Schwarzenberg family. During the second half of
the twentieth century it was surrounded by a dam.
(MPC 42361 – 2001 March 9)
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