Carbonaro



Asteroid 11373, Carbonaro, was discovered on August 17, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico. It has a period of 3 years, 98 days.

It was named for Lexington Park, Maryland high school student Nicole Jean Carbonaro (b. 1984), whose physics project got her to the finals in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Nicole Carbonaro


Asteroid Carbonaro's astrological meaning seems to be what its name might suggest: to consume or annihilate, to carbonize, to "be toast."



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