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8990 Compassion
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8990 Compassion is an asteroid, originally designated 1980 DN, discovered on 19 February 1980 at the Kleť Observatory.
The asteroid was named as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks against the Twin Towers in New York City. As a commemorative gesture, the Committee for the Nomenclature of Small Bodies chose three objects discovered in observatories on different continents and christened them with names representing some of the most basic and universal human values. Their selections were 8992 Magnanimity, 8991 Solidarity, and of course 8890 Compassion.
- This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of October 23, 2005.
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