5289 Niemela
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5289 Niemela is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on May 28, 1990 by the Felix Aguilar Observatory team at the El Leoncito Station. It is named after the astronomer Virpi Niemelä
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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 May 28, 1990 by the Felix Aguilar Observatory team at the El Leoncito Station. It is named after the astronomer Virpi Niemelä
Virpi Niemelä
Virpi Sinikka Niemelä was a leading Argentine astronomer. She was the second Argentine to be elected for Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society....
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