| | Petit-Prince (asteroid) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | It was discovered in 1998 by astronomers at the (Click link for more info and facts about Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on (An active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands) Mauna Kea, (A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands) Hawaii. |
 | | It is an extremely appropriate name, since (Click link for more info and facts about The Little Prince) The Little Prince in the novel lives on an (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid. |
 | | Petit-Prince is 13 km in diameter, compared to 45 Eugenia's 214 km. |
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