9967 Awanoyumi
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9967 Awanoyumi is a main belt asteroid. It orbits 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...

 once every 4.16 years.

Discovered on March 31, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed Awanoyumi after Yumi Awano, the curator
Curator
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 of the Okayama Astronomical Museum.
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