40994 Tekaridake
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40994 Tekaridake is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 20, 1999 by Makio Akiyama
at Mishima
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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 October 20, 1999 by Makio Akiyama
Makio Akiyama
is a Japanese astronomer affiliated with the Susono Observatory. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, and the asteroid 4904 Makio is named after him.-References:...
at Mishima
Mishima
-Places:*Mishima, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture*Mishima, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture*Mishima, Niigata, a town in Niigata Prefecture*Mishima, Shizuoka, a city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan-People:...
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