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1909 Alekhin is an asteroid discovered on September 4 1972 by Lyudmila Zhuravlyova. The asteroid was named in honor of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhin a Russian-French chess champion. It is a main belt asteroid with a diameter of 17.42 kilometers.The asteroid is scheduled to occlude a 9.1 magnitude star in the Leo constellation on November 30 2008 dimming the magnitude of both heavenly bodies for a maximum duration of 0.6 seconds.