1146 Biarmia is a main belt asteroid orbiting 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...

. Approximately 31 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 12 hours. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin

Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.He is credited with the discovery of 74 asteroids, and notably 951 Gaspra and 762 Pulcova. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name G. N. Neujmin, and his surname appears this way in the literature...

 on May 7, 1929. It was named after a legendary country Bjarmland in northern Russia

Russia

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 near the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

border. Its provisional designation was 1929 JF.