Summanus

(1990 SS )
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NOW @ 23 ARI 59
FOUND @ 2 ARI 47
 
Inclination: 19.432
Eccentricity: 0.474
Period: 2.223 years
AU 1.703
Type: 0803

Discovery Chart

25.9.1990 04:45 Kitt Peak 111w36 31n57 observations 1


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Summanus was the Etruscan or Roman deity responsible for nocturnal lightning and thunder, as Jupiter was in daytime. This was the first earth-approacher discovered automatically by software and (lightning-fast) electronic computer; J. V. Scotti used D. L. Rabinowitz's Moving Object Detection Program at the telescope.


Discovered on 25-9-1990 in Kitt Peak by Spacewatch

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