Dušan Kalmančok

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Minor planets discovered: 7<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
11118 Modra August 9, 1996 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
15860 Siráň April 20, 1996 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
24194 Paľuš December 8, 1999 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
38238 Holíč July 18, 1999 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
48934 Kočanová August 18, 1998 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
53910 Jánfischer April 6, 2000 Template:Ref label Template:MPC
Template:Mp April 5, 1999 Template:Ref label Template:MPC

Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945) is a Slovak astronomer and co-discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="springer-Kalmančok" />

He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 asteroids between 1996 and 2000,<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> and significantly contributed to the establishment of the Modra Observatory, Slovakia, in 1988. Kalmančok has also been involved in elaborating its observational programs to study the Sun and interplanetary matter.<ref name="springer-Kalmančok" />

The outer main-belt asteroid 29824 Kalmančok, discovered by astronomers Leonard Kornoš and Juraj Tóth at Modra, was named in his honor on 7 April 2005 (Template:Small).<ref name="springer-Kalmančok" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

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