(3437) Kapitsa

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( 3437 ) Kapitsa is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 20 October 1982 by the Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karatschkina at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095).

The asteroid was named after Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa the Russian physicist (1894-1984) who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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