(9780) Bandersnatch

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( 9780 ) Bandersnatch is an asteroid of the main belt, which on 25 September 1994 by the Japanese astronomer Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Yoshisada Nachi- Katsuura Observatory (IAU code 905) was discovered in Wakayama Prefecture.

The asteroid was named after the mysterious figure of the Bandersnatch from the poem Jabberwocky, which originates from the story Alice Through the Looking Glass of the British writer Lewis Carroll.

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