38442 Szilárd
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38442 Szilárd is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1806.7492020 days (4.95 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1999. It was named after Hungarian-American atom Physicist Leó Szilárd
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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...
with an orbital period
Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...
of 1806.7492020 days (4.95 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1999. It was named after Hungarian-American atom Physicist Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
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