Martha

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NOW @ 26 GEM 26
FOUND @ 4 TAU 6
 
Inclination: 10.704
Eccentricity: 0.037
Period: 4.635 years
AU 2.78
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

13.10.1879 00:00 Pola 13e51 44n52 observations 0


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Named for the biblical Martha (Book of Luke of the New Testament), sister of Mary and Lazarus of Bethany. Martha’s hospitality to Jesus is documented. Palisa selected this name in remembrance to the hospitality of his Berlin colleagues on the occasion of the September 1879 assembly of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. (Astronomischer Kalender für 1883, p. 108) _ _.


Discovered on 13-10-1879 in Pola by Palisa, J.

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