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871 Amneris

871 Amneris

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871 Amneris is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is the namesake of the Amneris family, a subgroup of the Flora family of Main Belt asteroids.

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This asteroid was named after Amneris, a character in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.[2]

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    "871 Amneris (1917 BY)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    "(871) Amneris". (871) Amneris In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. 2003. p. 79. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_872. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7.


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