1859 Kovalevskaya
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= 1859 Kovalevskaya (1972 RS2) aboslute mag. 10.20 mag diameter 46.02 km geometric albedo albedo 0.0694
1859 Kovalevskaya is an asteroid discovered September 4, 1972 by L. V. Zhuravleva. The asteroid was named in honor of Sofia Kovalevskaya, a Russian mathematician. It is an outer main-belt asteroid with a diameter of 46.02 kilometers.[1]
Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in Harvard's ranking of those who discovered minor planets. She discovered 200 such bodies, 13 of which were co-discoveries, between 1972 and 1992.[2]
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