5990 Panticapaeon - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

5990 Panticapaeon is a main-belt

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 9, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

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