5676 Voltaire
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5676 Voltaire
5676 Voltaire is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1430.7047683 days (3.92 years).[1]
The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1986, by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina. It is named in honor of the eighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire.[2]
References
- ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5676. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D.; International Astronomical Union (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names. Springer. p. 481. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA481. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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