8515 Corvan
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8515 Corvan is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on September 4, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. The asteroid was named after Patrick Corvan, an amateur astronomer and the former caretaker of the Armagh Planetarium.
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 September 4, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring. The asteroid was named after Patrick Corvan, an amateur astronomer and the former caretaker of the Armagh Planetarium.