6941 Dalgarno
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6941 Dalgarno is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on December 16, 1976 at Harvard Observatory. It is named for the astronomer Alexander Dalgarno
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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 December 16, 1976 at Harvard Observatory. It is named for the astronomer Alexander Dalgarno
Alexander Dalgarno
Alexander Dalgarno is a British physicist who is Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.-Biography:He was educated in mathematics and atomic physics at University College, London. He was an academic at the Queen's University of Belfast and moved to Harvard in 1967...
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