Xandertielens

(2772 P-L )
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NOW @ 26 SAG 12
FOUND @ 14 ARI 33
 
Inclination: 2.53
Eccentricity: 0.141
Period: 3.394 years
AU 2.258
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.9.1960 11:05 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Xander Tielens (b. 1953) is a Dutch astronomer in Leiden, who after his PhD went to the US to become Project Scientist for the airborne observatory, SOFIA. Back in the Netherlands he continues his work on dust and the chemistry of interstellar matter.


Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

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