20590 Bongiovanni
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20590 Bongiovanni is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on September 9, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro
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20590 Bongiovanni was named after Brice Bongiovanni after winning second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his behavioral and social sciences team project. His partner, Sameer Gupta, is the namesake of asteroid 20591 Sameergupta.
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 9, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro
Socorro, New Mexico
Socorro is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It stands in the Rio Grande Valley at an elevation of . The population was 9,051 at the 2010 census...
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20590 Bongiovanni was named after Brice Bongiovanni after winning second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his behavioral and social sciences team project. His partner, Sameer Gupta, is the namesake of asteroid 20591 Sameergupta.