7 Iris
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Iris is a large main-belt asteroid and possible remnant planetesimal orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. It is the fourth-brightest object in the asteroid belt. 7 Iris is classified as an S-type asteroid, meaning that it has a stony composition.
Iris imaged by the Very Large Telescope in 2017
Star rich field showing asteroid Iris (apmag 10.1)
John Russell Hind
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John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD was an English astronomer.
John Russell Hind c. 1860s
John Russell Hind