3587 Descartes

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3587 Descartes is a small main belt asteroid. It is 9.35 km in diameter. It was discovered by L. V. Zhuravleva in 1981. It is named after René Descartes, the seventeenth century philosopher.^[1]

References

↑ Schmadel, Lutz. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). Springer, 2003, p. 302.

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