2402 Satpaev
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2402 Satpaev is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on July 31, 1979 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. The asteroid was named after a Kazakhstani scientist, Kanysh Satpayev
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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 July 31, 1979 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. The asteroid was named after a Kazakhstani scientist, Kanysh Satpayev
Kanysh Satpayev
Kanysh Imantayuli Satpayev is one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny, principal advocate and the first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.-Biography:...
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