Menippe

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NOW @ 6 VIR 10
FOUND @ 26 SCO 53
 
Inclination: 11.704
Eccentricity: 0.179
Period: 4.586 years
AU 2.76
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

18.6.1878 00:00 Clinton 75w24 43n3 observations 0


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Named after a daughter of the celebrated hunter Orion who offered to die with her sister Metioche when a pestilence was raging in the Greek province Boeotia and the oracle had demanded the sacrifice of two virgins. Their voluntary sacrifice was rewarded by a place in the heavens as comets. Menippe is also the name of one of the Nereids. (H 23) _ _.


Discovered on 18-6-1878 in Clinton by Peters, C. H. F.

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