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Named for the beautiful consort of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten of the seventeenth dynasty in Egypt. She is generally believed to have had a major influence on radical changes that occurred in the court and religion of Egypt during the reign of Akhenaten. (M 10311)

The name Nefertiti is only a different spelling of Nofretete {see planet  (1068)}.