(11830) Jessenius = 1984 JE
Discovered 1984 May. 2 by A. Mrkos at Kleť.
Ján Jesenský (Jessenius, 1566-1621) was a physician, head of Prague university beginning in 1618 and Tycho Brahe's friend in Prague. He was executed at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. The name was suggested by J. Tichá and M. Tichý.
(MPC 40708 – 2000 May 23)

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