(1979) Sakharov

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(1979 ) Sakharov is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered on September 24, 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 name of the asteroid is reminiscent of the Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.

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