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3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980, and is named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night. It is 1-2 km in diameter and is a V-type asteroid, meaning that it may be a fragment of the asteroid 4 Vesta. Computer model of asteroid 3908 Nyx File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. ... A Mars-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. ... Hans-Emil Schuster (born September 19, 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer (retired since October 1991). ... Jump to: navigation, search August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the Greek goddess. ... The V-type asteroids or Vestoids are moderately bright, and very similar to the more common S-type, which are also made up of stony irons and ordinary chondrites. ... 4 Vesta (ves-ta) is the third-largest asteroid in the Main belt, between 530 and 468 km in diameter. ...

In 2000, radar observations conducted at the Arecibo and Goldstone observatories produced a model of Nyx' shape; the asteroid can best be described as spherical but with many protuding lumps. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... The Arecibo Observatory is located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico on the north coast of the island. ... The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) —commonly called the Goldstone Observatory— is located in Californias Mojave Desert (USA). ...

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