(2628) Kopal

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(2628) copal is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 25 June 1979 by the U.S. astronomer Eleanor Helin and scolding John bus at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413).

The asteroid was named after the Czech astronomer Zdenek Kopal (1914 - 1993) named. Kopal initiated after the Second World War the area of ​​Astronomy, University of Manchester and discussed in the 1960s by NASA in the run-up to the Apollo program as an external expert.

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