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3281 Maupertuis (1938 DZ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 24 1938 by Y. Vaisala at Turku. The crater was named for the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698 – 1759).

apoapsis (km)
3.86081e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.13623e+08
periapsis (km)
3.16764e+11
absolute magnitude
12.7
discovery date
1938-02-24
discoverer
Yrjö Väisälä
epoch
May 14 2008
former name
1938 DZ

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