1841 Masaryk & Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - Masarykovo námestí (Slaný, Central Bohemia)
N 50° 13.851 E 014° 05.258
33U E 434927 N 5564696
Outer main-belt Asteroid 1841 Masaryk (1971 UO1) bears name of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš G. Masaryk. The given coordinates mark his statue, which is located in main public space of Royal town Slaný - Masarykovo námestí.
Waymark Code: WMVDHK
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/05/2017
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Outer main-belt Asteroid 1841 Masaryk (1971 UO1) bears name of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš G. Masaryk. The given coordinates mark his statue, which is located in main public space of Royal town Slaný - Masarykovo námestí.
Outer main-belt Asteroid 1841 Masaryk (1971 UO1) is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 46 km in diameter. It was discovered by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at Hamburg Observatory on October 26, 1971. [wiki]
The modern bronze statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk decorates the square bearing president's name (Masarykovo námestí). The bronze life-size statue on prismatic marble pedestal, work of sculptors Miroslav Pangrác and František Radvana, was ceremonially unveiled in October 28, 2000.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded. [wiki]