5080 Oja
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5080 Oja is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 2, 1976 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at Kvistaberg. Named after the Swedish astronomer of Estonian descent Tarmo Oja
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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 March 2, 1976 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at Kvistaberg. Named after the Swedish astronomer of Estonian descent Tarmo Oja
Tarmo Oja
Tarmo Oja is a professor in astronomy at Uppsala University who studies galactic structure and variable stars. An asteroid, 5080 Oja, is named after him. He worked at the Kvistaberg Observatory until his retirement in 1999...
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