3169 Ostro
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3169 Ostro is an inner main-belt asteroid
discovered on June 4, 1981 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff (AM). It is named in honor of American astronomer Steven J. Ostro
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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 June 4, 1981 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff (AM). It is named in honor of American astronomer Steven J. Ostro
Steven J. Ostro
Steven J. Ostro was an American scientist specializing in Radar Astronomy. He worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ostro led radar observations of numerous asteroids, as well as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and Mars and its satellites...
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