Discovery date 5 July 1929 Discovered 5 July 1929 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Observation arc 86.77 yr (31693 days) Orbits Sun | |
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Discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch Aphelion 3.3518948 AU (501.43632 Gm) Perihelion 2.6858377 AU (401.79560 Gm) Semi-major axis 3.0188663 AU (451.61597 Gm) Discoverer Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch People also search for 1147 Stavropolis, 1149 Volga | ||
1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rarahu is the Tahitian name for a girl, taken from the novel Le mariage de Loti (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.
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