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Dulcinea (minor planet designation: 571 Dulcinea) is an asteroid orbiting in the inner main belt.[3] It was named after Dulcinea, a character from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. This is classified as a stony S-type asteroid and it is the second largest member of the Erigone collisional family.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Dulcinea". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ "571 Dulcinea (1905 QZ)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b Morate, David; et al. (February 2016), "Compositional study of asteroids in the Erigone collisional family using visible spectroscopy at the 10.4 m GTC", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 586: 18, arXiv:1701.03761, Bibcode:2016A&A...586A.129M, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527453, A129.

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