(6129) Demokritos

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( 6129 ) Democritus is an asteroid of the main belt of the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809 ) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered on September 4, 1989.

It was named in honor of Democritus, a philosopher of ancient Greece, which is counted to the pre-Socratics.

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