(3004) Knud

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( 3004 ) Knud is one of the main asteroid belt, which by the Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at La Silla Observatory (IAU code 809 ) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered on 27 February 1976.

The asteroid was named after the Danish - Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) named the 1910 trade and research station Thule founded and on numerous expeditions to the Greenland Eskimo tribes explored the local Inuit culture.

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