9962 Pfau
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9962 Pfau is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
once every 3.68 years.
Discovered on December 28, 1991 by F. Borngen, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Pfau" after Werner Pfau, a former director of the Jena University Observatory and former chairman of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
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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 3.68 years.
Discovered on December 28, 1991 by F. Borngen, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Pfau" after Werner Pfau, a former director of the Jena University Observatory and former chairman of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
Astronomische Gesellschaft
The Astronomische Gesellschaft is an astronomical society established in 1863 in Heidelberg, the second oldest astronomical society after the Royal Astronomical Society....
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