1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun

Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...

. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch

Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch

Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch was a Soviet astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory.Deutsch was born in the night from December 31, 1900, to January 1, 1901, in Bessarabian town of Reni in family of German , Greek and Romanian descent. When he was a small child, the family moved to Ryazan and...

 on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson

Cyril V. Jackson

Cyril Jackson was a South African astronomer.He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911....

 and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. Rarahu is the Tahiti

Tahiti

Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

an name for a girl, taken from the novel (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.