3600 Archimedes

3600 Archimedes is a small main belt asteroid, belonging to the Rafita family. It was discovered by Lyudmila Vasil'evna Zhuravleva in 1978. It is named after Archimedes, the ancient Greek scientist. Archimedes was also a famous mathematician who proved that the ratio of a circle's perimeter to its diameter is the same as the ratio of the circle's area to the square of the radius (we nowadays call this ratio π).

Minor planets navigator

3599 Basov•3600 Archimedes• 3601 Velikhov

Designation Groups Moons Meanings of names Pronunciation of names

Asteroids	Aten asteroid Families Jupiter Trojans Main-belt Near-Earth Spectral types

Distant minor planets	Centaurs Damocloids Neptune trojans Trans-Neptunian objects Detached Kuiper belt Oort cloud Scattered disc

Lists / categories