5535 Annefrank

Annefrank viewed by ''[[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust]]'' in 2002 5535 Annefrank ( ), provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid and suspected contact binary from the inner asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was used as a target to practice the flyby technique that the ''Stardust'' space probe would later use on the comet Wild 2.

The asteroid was discovered 23 March 1942, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. It was named after Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Annefrank
    Published 2016
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