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 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.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/petit-prince_(asteroid)1.htm   (281 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1870 the Prince Imperial had to flee from France with the Imperial Family and settled in England at Chislehurst, Kent.
His body was brought back to England and buried in a special mausoleum constructed by his mother as the Imperial Crypt at Saint Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, next to his father.
The asteroid moon Petit-Prince was named after the Prince Imperial in 1998, because it orbits an asteroid named after his mother (45 Eugenia).
www.ipedia.com /napoleon_eugene__prince_imperial.html   (273 words)

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