2208 Pushkin
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2208 Pushkin is an outer main-belt asteroid
discovered on August 22, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
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It was named after the leading writer of Russia, Pushkin.
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 August 22, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is located in Ukraine. CrAO has been publishing the Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1947, in English since 1977. The observatory facilities are located near the settlement of Nauchny since the mid-1950s; before that, they were further...
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It was named after the leading writer of Russia, Pushkin.