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Laura ( minor planet designation: 467 Laura) (1901 FY) is 
Main-belt asteroid
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, called ...
discovered on 9 January 1901 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg
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. The semi-major axis of the orbit of 467 Laura lies just inside the 7/3 Kirkwood gap
A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of the semi-major axes (or equivalently of the orbital periods) of the orbits of main-belt asteroids. They correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter.
For example, there a ...
, located at 2.95 AU. It's named after the character Laura from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera '' La Gioconda''.
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* * 000467 Discoveries by Max Wolf Named minor planets 19010109 {{beltasteroid-stub