Tittel

(2003 QW68 )
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NOW @ 20 SAG 8
FOUND @ 27 PIS 58
 
Inclination: 2.562
Eccentricity: 0.098
Period: 5.571 years
AU 3.142
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

26.8.2003 00:15 Piszkesteto 19e54 47n55 observations 1


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Hungarian astronomer and professor Pál Tittel (1784-1831), director of the Eger and Buda observatories, was a catholic priest and member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. For several years in his youth he was a pupil of Gauss in Göttingen. This minor planet was discovered on the 172nd anniversary of his death.


Discovered on 26-8-2003 in Piszkesteto by Sarneczky, K., Sipocz, B.

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