3620 Platonov
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3620 Platonov is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on September 7, 1981 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj and named for Soviet writer Andrei Platonov
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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...
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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 September 7, 1981 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj and named for Soviet writer Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov , a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies...
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