12782 Mauersberger
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12782 Mauersberger is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 5, 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
. It is named for
musician brothers Rudolf (1889-1971) and Erhard (1903-1982) Mauersberger.
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 March 5, 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
Tautenburg
Tautenburg, a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia in Germany, houses the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory....
. It is named for
musician brothers Rudolf (1889-1971) and Erhard (1903-1982) Mauersberger.