3316 Herzberg
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3316 Herzberg is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 6, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff (AM). It is named after Nobel chemistry laureate Gerhard Herzberg
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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 February 6, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff (AM). It is named after Nobel chemistry laureate Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned...
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