252 Clementina
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252 Clementina is a main belt
asteroid
.
It was discovered by J. Perrotin
on October 11, 1885 in Nice
.
Source of the name is not known, but is believed to be the name of Perrotin's first cat.
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...
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It was discovered by J. Perrotin
Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin
Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin was a French astronomer. Some sources give his middle name as Athanase....
on October 11, 1885 in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
.
Source of the name is not known, but is believed to be the name of Perrotin's first cat.