12999 Torun
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12999 Torun (1981 QJ2) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on August 30, 1981 by Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. The asteroid was renamed in 2008 after the city of Toruń, Poland. Toruń is the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, a very important place in Polish and European history (with the UNESCO World Heritage listed Old Town), and the main site of the Nicolaus Copernicus University (with its astronomy observatory at Piwnice, the largest in Poland).
