(5054) Keil

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( 5054 ) Wedge is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 12 January 1986 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688 ) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County.

The asteroid was named after the German - American mineralogist Klaus Keil ( b. 1934 ), the department led NASA Cosmochemistry 1963-1968 and by its spectral contributed virtually all types of meteorites to better understand the composition of asteroids.

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