3114 Ercilla
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3114 Ercilla is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 19, 1980 by Carlos Torres
at the Santiago-Cerro El Roble
observatory in Chile
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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 March 19, 1980 by Carlos Torres
Carlos Torres
Carlos Torres is an astronomer of the University of Chile. Between 1968 and 1982, he discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids from the University of Chile's Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station.-Selected publications:...
at the Santiago-Cerro El Roble
Cerro El Roble
Cerro El Roble is a mountain in central Chile. Much of the land area associated with this mountain was incorporated into the La Campana National Park in the late 1990s. An astronomical observatory is located at the top of this mountain.-Bibliography:...
observatory in Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
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