9523 Torino

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9523 Torino (provisional designation: 1981 EE₁) is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Henri Debehogne and Giovanni de Sanctis at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on March 5, 1981. It is named after the Italian city of Turin (Torino), a significant center of the automobile and aerospace industries; it is also connected with several scientists, including Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Galileo Ferraris, and Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini. The city also lent its name to the Torino Scale of near-Earth object impact risk.

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(9522) 1981 DS 9523 Torino (9524) 1981 EJ5

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