(44711) Carp

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( 44711 ) Carp is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which by Japanese astronomers Akimasa Nakamura at the Kuma- Kōgen Observatory (IAU code 360) was discovered in Kumakogen in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku on 3 October 1999. An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid, there had been already March 14, 1988 under the provisional designation 1988 EB3 at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California.

The asteroid was named on 6 August 2003 at the suggestion of Akimasa Nakamura after the Japanese Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team. Nakamura is a fan of the team.

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