9957 Raffaellosanti
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9957 Raffaellosanti is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...

 once every 3.46 years.

Discovered on October 6, 1991 by F. Börngen, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Raffaellosanti" after Raffaello Sanzio, a master of the Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

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