9954 Brachiosaurus
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9954 Brachiosaurus is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
once every 4.58 years.
Discovered on April 8, 1991 by E. W. Elst, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Brachiosaurus" after Brachiosaurus
, a large herbivorous dinosaur
.
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 4.58 years.
Discovered on April 8, 1991 by E. W. Elst, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Brachiosaurus" after Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...
, a large herbivorous dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
.