668 Dora is an
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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orbiting in the
asteroid belt
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 ...
located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation ''1908 DO''.
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Dora asteroids
Dora
Dora
Ch-type asteroids (SMASS)
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