4185 Phystech
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4185 Phystech is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 4, 1975 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named in honor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The name was proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in
St. Petersburg
on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of MIPT in 1996.
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 March 4, 1975 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named in honor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The name was proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of MIPT in 1996.