10039 Keet Seel
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10039 Keet Seel is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on June 2, 1984 by Brian A. Skiff
at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after the Keet Seel cliff dwellings of the Navajo National Monument
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Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on June 2, 1984 by Brian A. Skiff
Brian A. Skiff
Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff...
at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after the Keet Seel cliff dwellings of the Navajo National Monument
Navajo National Monument
Navajo National Monument is located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona.Navajo National Monument preserves three of the most intact cliff dwellings of the ancestral puebloan people . The Navajo people who live here today call these ancient ones Anasazi...
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