Name Dusan Kalmancok | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered 11118 Modra, 53910 Janfischer, 15860 Siran, 38238 Holic, 24194 Palus | ||
Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945) is a Slovak astronomer and co-discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 asteroids between 1996 and 2000, and significantly contributed to the establishment of the Modra Observatory, Slovakia, in 1988. Kalmančok has also been involved in elaborating its observational programs to study the Sun and interplanetary matter.
The outer main-belt asteroid 29824 Kalmančok, discovered by astronomers Leonard Kornoš and Juraj Tóth at Modra, was named in his honor on 7 April 2005 (M.P.C. 53954).
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