3097 Tacitus

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3097 Tacitus is a main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, the ancient Roman historian.

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