1772 Gagarin
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1772 Gagarin is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 6, 1968 by Chernykh, L. at Nauchnyj.
The asteroid is named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
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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 February 6, 1968 by Chernykh, L. at Nauchnyj.
The asteroid is named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
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