3269 Vibert-Douglas

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3269 Vibert-Douglas is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1697.6700516 days (4.65 years).^[1]

The asteroid was discovered on March 6, 1981, however did not take the name of Vibert-Douglas until 1988. The Asteroid was named in honor of the recently deceased Alice Vibert Douglas, a Canadian Astronomer.

References

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

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