Pingré

(1991 LP2 )

NOW @ 0 GEM 41

FOUND @ 10 SAG 19

Inclination: 1.994

Eccentricity: 0.148

Period: 3.484 years

AU 2.298

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

6.6.1991 03:58 La Silla 70w44 29s15 observations 1

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Alexandre-Guy Pingré (1711-1796), a French astronomer, was sent by the king to the isle of Rodrigue in the Indian Ocean to observe the transit of Venus in 1761. Pingré is particularly known from his two-volume Traité historique et théorique des comètes (1783-1784).

Discovered on 6-6-1991 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.
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