Scientists have come up with a name for one of the minor planets

In Solar system there was a small planet called Bernardon.

One of the small planets of the Solar system is officially called Bernardon.

The name was chosen by the International centre for radio astronomy research, whose founder was an astrophysicist Bernard Bowen, reports EurekAlert!.

Planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. To make a revolution around the Sun, it takes earth about 3.26 years. A heavenly body was discovered on 28 October 1991, to the present time was known as (6196) 1991 UO4.

Small planet is a category of celestial bodies, like planets, orbit the Sun, but differ from them in small sizes. Until 2006, the so-called asteroids, however, after the clarification of the term “planet” to the minor planets classified such objects as Pluto, Eris and Ceres.

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