9997 COBE
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9997 COBE is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
once every 4.06 years.
Discovered on March 25, 1971 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld in archival data produced by T. Gehrels, it was given the provision designation 1217 T-1. It was later renamed 9997 COBE in honour of the Cosmic Background Explorer.
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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 4.06 years.
Discovered on March 25, 1971 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld in archival data produced by T. Gehrels, it was given the provision designation 1217 T-1. It was later renamed 9997 COBE in honour of the Cosmic Background Explorer.