(3009) Coventry

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( 3009 ) Coventry is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 22 September 1973 by Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh at the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj.

The asteroid was named after the English industrial city of Coventry, which was bombed several times during World War II by the German Luftwaffe and badly damaged.

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