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11118 Modra
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<p>11118 Modra (<a href="/facts/Minor_planet_provisional_designation/1XVyJynE">provisional designation</a> 1996 PK) is a Flora <a href="/facts/Asteroid/g7Ulr1VB">asteroid</a> of uncertain composition from the inner regions of the <a href="/facts/Asteroid_belt/YHAq2Eh3">asteroid belt</a>, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. </p><p>It was discovered on 9 August 1996, by Slovak astronomers <a href="/facts/Adri%C3%A1n_Gal%C3%A1d/jb1CWBj6">Adrián Galád</a> and <a href="/facts/Du%C5%A1an_Kalman%C4%8Dok/XWwBDnlw">Dušan Kalmančok</a> at the <a href="/facts/Modra_Observatory/5Ec8zfJY">Modra Observatory</a> in Slovakia, and named for the town <a href="/facts/Modra/bwXUando">Modra</a> where the discovering observatory is located. </p>