NASA names Arab astronomical researcher after space asteroid – your news now

The American space agency NASA named an asteroid after the Moroccan astronomer at the Oukimden Observatory, Abdelkarim Baskar, with “respect” for his efforts to find it going back to the year 2002.

Twenty-two years after this discovery, made by the famous Swiss astronomer Michel Urey, with the help of the Oukimden Observatory, the name of the asteroid today became “176532 Boskri” in recognition of the efforts of the astronomer Moroccan Abdel Karim Baskar in this performance.

This name, announced by NASA, came at the joint request of the Jurassic Society for Astronomy in Switzerland and the Oukaimeden Astronomical Observatory.

The asteroid “176532 Boskri” is located in the so-called “asteroid belt” between the planets Jupiter and Mars, which contains a large group of asteroids that cannot be seen with the naked eye due to their great distance from Earth.

Abdel Karim Baskar, an astronomical researcher at the Okimden Observatory who holds a doctorate in astronomy from Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh, said, “Giving my name to this asteroid gives me great pride, because I join a few Moroccan scientists who have been lucky enough. to do this.”

The distance of the asteroid from the Sun is about 2.70 astronomical units, and it is located mainly on a semi-major axis between 3.16 and 98 degrees, which is an “elliptical” orbit.

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