Dufour

(1973 WA )
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NOW @ 27 AQU 53
FOUND @ 22 ARI 33
 
Inclination: 6.65
Eccentricity: 0.125
Period: 5.701 years
AU 3.191
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

19.11.1973 19:16 Zimmerwald 7e28 46n53 observations 1


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Named in memory of Henri Dufour (1787–1875), citizen of Geneva, who as a general in 1847 swiftly and with almost no bloodshed, subdued the catholic Sonderbund, and who later as an engineer, initiated and directed the first complete geodetic survey of Switzerland. (M 4157) _ _.


Discovered on 19-11-1973 in Zimmerwald by Wild, P.

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