1778 Alfvén

1778 Alfvén is a main belt asteroid, discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.^[1] It was named after Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén.

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