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unusual facts about Main Belt asteroid



23944 Dusser

23944 Dusser (1998 UR3) is a Main Belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1998 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols.


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127 Johanna

127 Johanna is a large, dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on November 5, 1872, and is believed to be named after Joan of Arc.

13801 Kohlhase

13801 Kohlhase (1998 VP44) is a main-belt asteroid discovered November 11, 1998 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station This Asteroid belt is named after Charles Kohlhase, a pioneer in the design, development and execution of planetary missions for more than four decades at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

165 Loreley

165 Loreley is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 9, 1876, in Clinton, New York and named after the Lorelei, a figure in German folklore.

18091 Iranmanesh

18091 Iranmanesh (2000 JN58) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.

187 Lamberta

187 Lamberta is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French (Corsican) astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia on April 11, 1878 and named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert.

19528 Delloro

19528 Delloro (1999 GB1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 4, 1999 by Germano D'Abramo and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.

4776 Luyi

4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism.

Battiato

18556 Battiato (1997 CC7), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1997

Bhagwat

21351 Bhagwat (1997 EC36), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1997

Bolotov

7858 Bolotov (1978 SB3), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978

Cherson

2701 Cherson, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1 September 1978 by Nikolai Chernykh

Christabel

2695 Christabel (1979 UE), a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1979

Defi

10332 Défi or 10332 Defi (1991 JT1), main belt asteroid discovered in 1991

Dembowski

349 Dembowska, a main belt asteroid named after Ercole Dembowski (Dembowska is the feminine form of this surname)

Fantin

10311 Fantin-Latour (1990 QL9), Main-belt Asteroid discovered on August 16, 1990

Gaudium

8061 Gaudium is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on October 27, 1975 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.

Gösta Gahm

10997 Gahm, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 2 September 1978, is named in honor of Gahm.

Grumiaux

4571 Grumiaux (1985 RY3), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1985

Herfordia

10669 Herfordia, a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1977

Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

8057 Hofmannsthal (4034 T-1), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on 1971

Irwin I. Shapiro

In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.

Jef Geeraerts

The 13027 Geeraerts (1989 GJ4) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory named after Jef Geeraerts

Kapitsa

3437 Kapitsa (1982 UZ5) - main-belt asteroid discovered in 1982 by L. G. Karachkina, named after Pyotr Kapitsa

Kishon

21010 Kishon (1988 PL2), a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1988

Koussa

23070 Koussa, 23070 Koussa is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2040.8963889 days (5.59 years).

Krinov

2887 Krinov (1977 QD5), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1977

Krumlov

2747 Český Krumlov, a small main belt asteroid discovered by Antonín Mrkos

Leucocephala

8971 Leucocephala, a Main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973

Magion

2696 Magion, a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 16, 1980

Maksutov

2568 Maksutov, a main-belt asteroid named after Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov

Mariangela

55112 Mariangela (2001 QQ153), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 2001

Matossian

22776 Matossian, full name 22776 Matossian (1999 CS24), main-belt asteroid discovered on February 10, 1999

Metodi

2609 Kiril-Metodi, main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1209

Michael A. Stackpole

An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David B. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.

Michèle Moons

Her name has been given to the main-belt asteroid 7805 Moons, discovered in 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.

Moriz von Kuffner

In 2006 the main-belt asteroid 12568 Kuffner was named in honor of Moriz von Kuffner's sponsorship of astronomy.

Niilo

2972 Niilo (1939 TB), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1939

Nyctimene

2150 Nyctimene (1977 TA), an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1977 by W. Sebok at Palomar

Piaf

:* 3772 Piaf (1982 UR7), a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1982 by L. G. Karachkina

Riehl

16189 Riehl (2000 AT187), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered 2000

Rodari

2703 Rodari (1979 FT2) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 29, 1979 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

Schoof

17958 Schoof (1999 JE33), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1999

Sohlmann

12199 Sohlman (1980 TK6), a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1980 by L. V. Zhuravleva

SP7

2771 Polzunov (1978 SP7), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978

Théberge

16212 Theberge (2000 CB84), a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 4, 2000

Tricomi

31189 Tricomi (1997 YZ7) Tricomi (asteroid 31189), Main-belt Asteroid

Vorontsova

12191 Vorontsova, main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 4.19 years

Weinek

7114 Weinek (1986 WN7), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1986

Yanaka

22489 Yanaka (1997 GR24) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1997