1778 Alfvén

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( 1778) Alfvén is one of the main asteroid belt, which was discovered on September 26, 1960 as part of the Palomar - Leiden survey by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels.

The asteroid is named after the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén.

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