(5053) Chladni

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( 5053 ) Chladni is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 22 March 1985 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688 ) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County.

The asteroid was named after the German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni and astronomer (1756-1827) who, through his thesis on the origin of meteorites in space founded in 1794 the modern meteorite research.

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