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Here is the asteroid 'Divinacommedia'

2021-06-30T07:51:56.904Z


The asteroid 'Divinacommedia' is dedicated to Dante Alighieri. His name will be officially presented on 30 June on the occasion of Astraoid Day, the international day dedicated to asteroids, and has just been accepted by the International Astronomical Union (Iau) on the proposal of astrophysicist Gianluca Masi (ANSA).


The asteroid 'Divinacommedia' is dedicated to Dante Alighieri. His name will be officially presented on 30 June on the occasion of Astraoid Day, the international day dedicated to asteroids, and has just been accepted by the International Astronomical Union (Iau) on the proposal of astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, scientific director of the Virtual Telescope. Project and coordinator for Italy of Asteroid Day. The goal, said Masi, is "to celebrate the universal masterpiece of Dante Alighieri 700 years after his death".



Masi himself discovered the asteroid with his colleague René Michelsen on the night of February 9, 2003: the two researchers were in Chile to measure the position of one of the asteroids close to the Earth, the so-called Neo (Near Earth Asteroid), when an asteroid it had happened as an intruder in the images. It was new and the Minor Planet Center assigned it provisional designation 2003 CD20. A few years later, having gained a good knowledge of its orbit around the Sun, the asteroid obtained a definitive number, (65487) 2003 CD20, and was ready to receive a name. Now the name has arrived and 'Divinacommedia', observes Masi, "will be indicated in all the archives, databases and astronomical atlases".



'Divinacomedia' is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 381 million kilometers from the Sun and takes almost four years to complete an orbit around our star, has an estimated diameter of about three kilometers and rotates on itself in about three and a half hours.



The official presentation is scheduled for the 2021 edition of Asteroid Day, international asteroid day, which is celebrated every 30 June on the occasion of the anniversary of the largest impact of an asteroid on Earth in recorded history, which took place in Siberia, in Tunguska, June 30, 1908. "Sharing this denomination on the occasion of Asteroid Day is particularly exciting: this underlines how asteroids, in addition to their extraordinary scientific significance, have a great cultural value", observes Masi, The presentation of the asteroid ( 65487) Divinacommedia is scheduled as part of the event "Divinacommedia and Dante: a journey among the asteroids with the Supreme Poet", part of the Asteroid Day Italia initiative.

Source: ansa

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