1147 Stavropolis
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1147 Stavropolis 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...

. It makes a revolution around the Sun once every 3 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Grigory Neujmin on June 11, 1929. It was named for the city of Stavropol
Stavropol
-International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...

 in southern Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. Its provisional designation was 1929 LF.
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