721 Tabora
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721 Tabora is a planetoid
orbiting the Sun
.
Tabora was named at a conference in Hamburg
, Germany in 1913. The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger cargo liner
of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie
.
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
orbiting the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
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Tabora was named at a conference in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany in 1913. The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger cargo liner
Cargo liner
A Cargo liner is a type of merchant ship which carried general cargo and often passengers. They became common just after the middle of the nineteenth century, and eventually gave way to container ships and other more specialized carriers in the latter half of the twentieth...
of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie
Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie
The Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie was a shipping line, established in 1890 as an alternative to the existing transportation routes to that area, then dominated by Great Britain. In 1942 it and the Woermann-Linie were taken over by John T. Essberger....
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