Asteroids named after people called Matej

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(22644) Matejbel

Matej Bel (1684-1749), Slovak historian and a great scholar of the eighteenth century, was a pioneer of collaborative research, member of numerous scholarly societies and author of the book Notitia Hungariae novae historico-geographica. The University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, bears his name.Discovered 27 July 1998 by Pravec, P., Babiakova, U., Ondrejov

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