(14612) Irtish

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( 14612 ) Irtish is an asteroid of the main belt of the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809 ) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered on 18 September 1998.

The asteroid is named after the Irtysh River, which rises in the Mongolian Altai in China, flows through Kazakhstan and the West Siberian lowlands and finally flows into the Ob after 4248 kilometers in Khanty-Mansiysk.

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