Gamaovalia

(2009 RA2 )
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NOW @ 13 PIS 43
Inclination: 13.908
Eccentricity: 0.205
Period: 4.248 years
AU 2.623
Type: 0000

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Named after the three sisters Galina (b. 1935), Mariya (b. 1940), Oktyabrina (b. 1938) and two brothers Vassiliy (b. 1944) and Lev (b. 1947) of astronomer Klim Churyumov, co-discoverer of comet 67P, the main target of the Rosetta spacecraft.


Discovered on 10-9-2009 in ESA OGS by Busch, M., Kresken, R.

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