20043 Ellenmacarthur
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20043 Ellenmacarthur is an inner main-belt asteroid
discovered on March 2, 1993 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. It is named after English sailor Ellen MacArthur
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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 March 2, 1993 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. It is named after English sailor Ellen MacArthur
Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE is an English sailor, up until 2009, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in West Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo...
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