20522 Yogeshwar
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20522 Yogeshwar is a main-belt
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 September 13, 1999 by A. Knöfel at Drebach
Drebach
Drebach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany....

. The asteroid is named for Ranga Yogeshwar, a producer of science television programs at WDR
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD...

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