10010 Rudruna (1978 PW3 / 1986 TU3), a main-belt asteroid of the - TopicsExpress



          

10010 Rudruna (1978 PW3 / 1986 TU3), a main-belt asteroid of the Solar System, located between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter - discovered on 09 August 1978 by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh and Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. This planet was named Rudruna (Rossijskij universitet druzhby narodov - Российский университет дружбы народов) in honour of the Peoples Friendship University of Russia. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=10010+Rudruna
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:20:29 +0000

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