3494 Purple Mountain is a small asteroid in the asteroid belt. It is not purple; its unusual name comes from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China where it was rediscovered […]
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3552 Don Quixote
3552 Don Quixote is an Amor Mars-crossing Jupiter-crossing asteroid. It has a highly inclined comet-like orbit that leads to frequent perturbations by Jupiter measures 18.4 km in diameter and has […]
3568 ASCII
3568 ASCII is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Marguerite Laugier on October 17 1936.It was named (long after its discovery) in honor of the ASCII character encoding system […]
3600 Archimedes
3600 Archimedes is a small main belt asteroid belonging to the Rafita family. It was discovered by Lyudmila Vasil’evna Zhuravleva in 1978 and is named after Archimedes the ancient Greek […]
3582 Cyrano
3582 Cyrano is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Paul Wild in 1986. It is named after Cyrano de Bergerac the seventeenth century French dramatist and duellist […]
3587 Descartes
3587 Descartes is a small main belt asteroid. It is 9.35 km in diameter. It was discovered by L. V. Zhuravleva in 1981. It is named after René Descartes the […]
3728 IRAS
3728 IRAS is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1983. It is about 6.07 miles (9.76 km) in diameter according to data from the infrared survey by the IRAS satellite […]
3773 Smithsonian
3773 Smithsonian is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by astronomers at the Oak Ridge Observatory in 1984. It is named in honour of the Smithsonian Institution the […]
3784 Chopin
3784 Chopin is a small main belt asteroid with a diameter of 28.53 +/- 4.4 km. It was discovered by Eric W. Elst in 1986. It is named after Frédéric […]
3826 Handel
3826 Handel is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by F. Borngen in 1973. It is named after George Frideric Handel the eighteenth century German composer.