(8661) Ratzinger

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( 8661 ) Ratzinger is an asteroid and is one of the countless mini planets orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It has a diameter of about 10 km, its rotation period is not yet known.

( 8661 ) Ratzinger was discovered on October 14, 1990 by Lutz D. Schmadel and frankness Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory in Tautenburg and got the provisional name 1990 TA13 before it was cataloged as number 8661.

Because at the time of discovery by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Aloysius, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. , The Vatican archives had opened for science, was awarded in 2000 in his honor the previously unnamed asteroid the name " Ratzinger ".

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