668 Dora is an
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
orbiting in the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...
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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