4868 Knushevia is an inner 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 October 27, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar

Palomar Observatory

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Romanization of Ukrainian

The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....

: Knushevia) is an asteroid named after Kyiv University (full name , translit.

Romanization of Ukrainian

The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....

: Кyivs'kyj Natsional'nyj Universytet іmeni (name) Shevchenka

Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...

) in 2002. Named for the great achievement of the Kyiv University in the education, science and culture of Ukraine, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Ukraine.

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