Which of these Disney characters gave his name to an asteroid?
The asteroid belt in our solar system is a ring-shaped region lying approximately between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes but much smaller than planets, called asteroids or minor planets.
Asteroid 12410, located in this belt, was discovered on 26 September 1995 by scientists Piero Sicoli and Pierangelo Ghezzi, working at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory, in northern Italy. They named asteroid 12410 'Donald Duck'.
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