The asteroid was discovered on August 24, 1997 by A. Galád and A. Pravda at Modra, Slovakia.
The event has a history going back to Czechoslovakia of 1978, and the first KAEST held by E@I took place in November 2010 in Modra.
Her film MODRA about returning to the Bratislava region and her home town of Modra was produced in 2010, starring her daughter Hallie Switzer.
The asteroid 11118 Modra discovered at this observatory is named in the honor of the town.
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The upper building with the 5-metre dome has a small telescope for educational purposes and registration devices for GPS and forward scatter meteor radar of the Bologna-Lecce-Modra network (transceiver-receiver-receiver).
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The Astronomical and Geophysical observatory of Comenius University is located near the town of Modra and in the mountain range of Little Carpathians.
Three roads passed throughout the area: one from Bratislava to Modra, second to Vajnory and the third to Trnava and Nitra.
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Besides photographic all-sky cameras, fish-eye all-sky semi-automated meteor detection devices are located at Modra observatory, near Tesárske Mlyňany and in Kysucké Nové Mesto.