39971 József
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39971 József is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1483.2461782 days (4.06 years).
The asteroid was discovered on April 2, 1998. It was named after the Hungarian poet Attila József
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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 1483.2461782 days (4.06 years).
The asteroid was discovered on April 2, 1998. It was named after the Hungarian poet Attila József
Attila József
Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...
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