90481 Wollstonecraft
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90481 Wollstonecraft is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 16, 2004 by J. Dellinger and D. Wells at Needville.
It was named for Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759–1797).
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 February 16, 2004 by J. Dellinger and D. Wells at Needville.
It was named for Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...
(1759–1797).