5780 Lafontaine
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5780 Lafontaine is an outer main-belt asteroid
discovered on March 2, 1990 by E. W. Elst at La Silla. It is named for the French lyric poet Jean de La Fontaine
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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...
discovered on March 2, 1990 by E. W. Elst at La Silla. It is named for the French lyric poet Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...
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