5676 Voltaire
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5676 Voltaire is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1430.7047683 days (3.92 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1986, by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina. It is named in honor of the eighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire
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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 1430.7047683 days (3.92 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1986, by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina. It is named in honor of the eighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
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