1793 Zoya
Encyclopedia
1793 Zoya is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 28, 1968 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Soviet
world war 2 hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
.
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 28, 1968 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
world war 2 hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, alternatively Romanised as Kosmodem'yanskaya was a Soviet partisan, and a Hero of the Soviet Union...
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