(1958) Chandra

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(1958 ) Chandra is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which on September 24, 1970 at El Leoncito Observatory, is which is the Felix Aguilar Observatory (IAU code 808) in the Argentine National Park El Leoncito by Argentine astronomer Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, discovered been. The observatory was used as an outpost for the Yale University and Columbia University to observe the southern sky, and since 1990 Observatorio Carlos Cesco means. Unsecured sightings of the asteroid, there had been several times before: in April 1947 the Algerian Observatoire astronomique de Bouzareah (1947 HD), on September 2, 1959, the Heidelberg State Observatory king chair (1959 RG1 ) and on October 28, 1965 at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana (1965 UN).

The mean diameter of the asteroid was determined with 34.02 km (± 2.5 ). He has an albedo of 0.0801 (± 0.013) a rather dark surface.

(1958 ) Chandra was appointed on 1 November 1979 after the American- Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, in 1983 received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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