(2679) Kittisvaara

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( 2679 ) Kittisvaara is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on October 7, 1939 by Yrjö Väisälä the Finnish astronomers in Turku.

The name of the asteroid is reminiscent of the Finnish mountain Kittisvaara, one of the places to Pierre Louis Maupertuis used to determine the length of a degree of longitude.

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