(3347) Konstantin

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( 3347 ) Constantine is an asteroid of the outer main belt, discovered by Soviet astronomer Tamara Smirnova on November 2, 1975 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: among other things, on 27 October 1903 the provisional designation A903 UF and in 1952 (1952 QL) at the Heidelberg State Observatory king chair, on 14 October 1969 ( 1969 TA5 ) on Crimea Observatory in Nautschnyj.

After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 3347 ) Constantine of a dark surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

( 3347 ) Constantine was named on November 2, 1990 after the Soviet aircraft designer Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin ( 1889-1938 ).

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