4118 Sveta
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4118 Sveta is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 15, 1982 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. It is named for Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya
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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 October 15, 1982 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. It is named for Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya She started training as a cosmonaut in 1980. Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.She was twice awarded the Hero...
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