1148 Rarahu

1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rarahu is the Tahitian name for a girl, taken from the novel Le mariage de Loti (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.

1148 Rarahu

1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rarahu is the Tahitian name for a girl, taken from the novel Le mariage de Loti (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.