Godin

(1991 GR2 )

NOW @ 11 TAU 31

FOUND @ 15 LIB 46

Inclination: 2.209

Eccentricity: 0.187

Period: 3.49 years

AU 2.301

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

8.4.1991 00:33 La Silla 70w44 29s15 observations 1

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Louis Godin (1704-1760) was a French astronomer who proposed to send expeditions to the equator and the polar sea to measure an arc of one degree, in order to find out the true shape of the Earth. In 1753 he joined Condamine and Bouguer on an expedition to Peru.

Discovered on 8-4-1991 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.
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