(16929) Hurník = 1998 FP73
Ilja Hurník (b. 1922), outstanding Czech composer, pianist,
writer, musical pedagogue, speaker and popularizer, has a keen
interest in science, particularly in astronomy. The name was
suggested by participants of the meeting organized on the occasion of
naming the Johann Palisa Observatory and Planetarium in Ostrava-Poruba.
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A complete set of naming citations of the numbered minor planets is available in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, edited by Lutz Schmadel.