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5535 Annefrank
5535 Annefrank
is an inner
main-belt
asteroid
, and member of the
Augusta family
. It was discovered by
Karl Reinmuth
at
Heidelberg State Observatory
in 1942. In 1995 it was named after
Anne Frank
, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a
concentration camp
. The asteroid was used as a target to practice the flyby technique that the
Stardust space probe
would later use on the
comet
Wild 2
.
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