13358 Revelle
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13358 Revelle is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on 1998 Oct. 14, by LONEOS
at the Anderson Mesa Station. The asteroid was called 13358 Revelle in honor of Douglas ReVelle
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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 1998 Oct. 14, by LONEOS
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona...
at the Anderson Mesa Station. The asteroid was called 13358 Revelle in honor of Douglas ReVelle
Douglas ReVelle
Douglas O. ReVelle was an American scientist. He worked for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory....
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