27712 Coudray
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27712 Coudray is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on November 3, 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
. It is named after the 19th century German architect Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray
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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 November 3, 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
Tautenburg
Tautenburg, a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia in Germany, houses the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory....
. It is named after the 19th century German architect Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray
Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray
Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray was a German neoclassical architect. From 1804 to 1816 he worked as court architect in Fulda and from 1816 until his death as Chief Director of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, producing several significant buildings in the town of Weimar itself...
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