3072 Vilnius

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3072 Vilnius is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1223.7406502 days (3.35 years).^[1]

The asteroid was discovered on September 5, 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh. It was named after the capital of Lithuania; Vilnius.

References

↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-05-17.

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