3660 Lazarev
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3660 Lazarev is an outer main-belt asteroid
discovered on August 31, 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It is named after the 19th century Russian explorer Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev
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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 August 31, 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It is named after the 19th century Russian explorer Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev
Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev
Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev was a Russian fleet commander and explorer who discovered Antarctica.-Education and early career:Lazarev was born in Vladimir, a scion of the old Russian nobility from the Vladimir province. In 1800, he enrolled in Russia's Naval College. Three years later he...
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