1079 Mimosa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun discovered on January 14 in 1927 by George Van Biesbroeck. Initially it received the designation 1927 AD due ti its year of discovery The numerical designation indicates this was the 1079th asteroid discovered. It is named after the Mimosa genus of shrubs.
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