(27596)Maldives - Place and Asteroid - Maldives
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 04° 11.546 E 073° 31.606
43N E 336484 N 463552
Maldives Place and Asteroid.
Waymark Code: WM173ZX
Location: Maldives
Date Posted: 12/04/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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In this airport in Maldives, there is the letters of the country.

"(27596) Maldives is an asteroid located in the outer main belt. It was discovered on February 16, 2001 by Hong Kong-born Canadian astronomer William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Beaver Observatory near Eloy, Arizona (IAU code 919).
The asteroid had previously been sighted on May 9, 1981 at the Argentine Observatorio El Leoncito under the provisional designation 1981 JQ1, and on May 28, 1981 (1981 KM1) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The mean diameter of the asteroid was roughly calculated using the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as 5.572 (±0.617) km, the albedo as 0.172 (±0.042). The solar orbit of (27596) Maldives is highly elliptical with an eccentricity of 0.2397. (27596) Maldives was named on June 2, 2015 after the island nation of Maldives.
The dedication highlighted the concerns of the Maldivian population about rising sea levels."

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