9969 Braille is a small Mars-crossing asteroid that orbits the Sun once every 3.58 years. It was discovered in 1992 by astronomers at Palomar observatory and later named after Louis Braille the inventor of the writing system for the blind. It was photographed in closeup by the spacecraft Deep Space 1 in 1999 but a malfunction resulted in indistinct images.
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