1677 Tycho Brahe
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1677-tycho-brahe-245-16998366
title:
1677 Tycho Brahe
text:
1677 Tycho Brahe, provisional designation 1940 RO, is a stony Marian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 September 1940, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland. The common stony S-type asteroid has a short rotation period of 3.89 hours. It was later named after Tycho Brahe, one of the fathers of astronomy.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Asteroid
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1677_Tycho_Brahe
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date modified:
2024-01-14T21:39:51Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
15