8991 Solidarity

8991 Solidarity is an asteroid previously designated 1980 PV₁. It was discovered on August 6, 1980 from the European Southern Observatory in Cerro La Silla, Chile.

The asteroid was named in response to the September 11 attacks. As a commemorative gesture, the IAU's Committee for the Nomenclature of Small Bodies chose three objects discovered in observatories on different continents and christened them with names representing some of the most basic and universal human values. The other two selections were 8990 Compassion (discovered from Europe) and 8992 Magnanimity (discovered from Asia).

References

• This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of October 23, 2005.