(24048) Pedroduque

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( 24048 ) Pedro Duque is one of the main asteroid belt, which the Catalan Jaume Nomen astronomers at the observatory Ametlla de Mar ( IAU code 946 ) was discovered by L' Ametlla de Mar in the province of Tarragona in Spain on 10 October 1999.

The asteroid is (* 1963), named after the Spanish astronaut Pedro Francisco Duque, who flew the first Spaniard as a mission specialist aboard the ESA of STS- 95 into space. In October 2003 he completed his second space flight in a week-long stay on the ISS in the Soyuz TMA - mission - third