(9879) Mammuthus

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1994 PZ29. Discovered 1994 Aug. 12 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Mammuthus or woolly mammoth was a kind of elephant, about 4 meters tall, with dense dark hair and an 8-cm-thick layer of fat, protecting the animal from the cold. Feeding itself with Tundra grasses, it was hunted by Paleolithic man. (M 47166)

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