1984 OA. Discovered 1984 July 21 by A. Mrkos at Kleť.
Ötzi, or Iceman, is a popular name for a prehistoric man of the late Stone Age. His mummified body was found on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991. (M 40701)
The name was proposed by M. Tichý.
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