(3673) Levy

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( 3673 ) Levy is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on August 22, 1985 in Coconino County by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688 ) of the Lowell Observatory.

In December 2007, discovered a supervised by the Czech astronomer Petr Pravec team of astronomers that ( 3673 ) Levy has a moon. This satellite, designated S/2007 ( 3673 ) 1 has a diameter of about 3 km and rotates Levy at 21.67 hours at a distance of 20 km.

The asteroid was named after the Canadian astronomer David H. Levy, co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker -Levy 9

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