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955 Alstede

main-belt asteroid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ158259 ↗
Source-derived summary

955 Alstede is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1921 and was named after his wife Lina Alstede Reinmuth, who also had 954 Li named after her.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “955 Alstede” is main-belt asteroid. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alstede, main-belt and asteroid, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alstede, main-belt and asteroid is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “main-belt asteroid” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q158259. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921.

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This entry incorporates text from “955 Alstede” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.