2308 Schilt
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2308 Schilt is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on May 6, 1967 by C. U. Cesco and A. R. Klemola at the Yale-Columbia Southern Station, El Leoncito. It is named for Jan Schilt
, one of the founders of the Station.
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 6, 1967 by C. U. Cesco and A. R. Klemola at the Yale-Columbia Southern Station, El Leoncito. It is named for Jan Schilt
Jan Schilt
Jan Schilt was a Dutch-American astronomer, inventor of the Schilt photometer.-Biography:Schilt was born in 1894 in the Netherlands, and educated there under Jacobus Kapteyn...
, one of the founders of the Station.