10895 Aynrand
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10895 Aynrand is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 11, 1997 by G. R. Viscome at Rand Observatory. It was named for writer and philosopher Ayn Rand
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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 October 11, 1997 by G. R. Viscome at Rand Observatory. It was named for writer and philosopher Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
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