KLENOT project & 42377 KLENOT Asteroid - Klet Mountain, Czech Republic
Posted by: ToRo61
N 48° 51.825 E 014° 17.082
33U E 447538 N 5412556
KLENOT is a portmanteau of KLEt' Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope. It is limited to objects with a visual apparent magnitude of 22.0 and brighter.
Waymark Code: WMR5T6
Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/13/2016
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About a thousand asteroids were discovered by astronomers from Klet Observatory (
visit link) . The most of this asteroids was named after famous locations of Czech Republic or famous Czech natives. In addition to these well-known names/persons, some asteroids are named after the names of the villages in the vicinity of the Klet Observatory.
42377 KLENOT Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Date of discovery: 8. 3. 2002
Place of discovery: Klet Observatory