3248 Farinella
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3248 Farinella is an outer main-belt 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 21, 1982 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff (AM).

The asteroid is named after Paolo Farinella
Paolo Farinella
Paolo Farinella was an Italian scientist very active in the planetary field and in the study of asteroids and small bodies of the Solar System....

(1953–2000) who was an Italian planetary scientist very active in the study of asteroids, collisions and space debris.

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