5666 Rabelais
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5666 Rabelais is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 14, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named for the French satirist François Rabelais
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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 14, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named for the French satirist François Rabelais
François Rabelais
François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...
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