Thomsen

(1942 RQ )
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NOW @ 2 CAN 48
FOUND @ 12 ARI 36
 
Inclination: 5.694
Eccentricity: 0.33
Period: 3.216 years
AU 2.179
Type: 0005

Discovery Chart

8.9.1942 00:57 Turku 22e14 60n27 observations 1


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Named in memory of Ivan Leslie Thomsen (1910–1969), director of the Carter Observatory, Wellington, from 1945 until his appointment as astronomer-in-charge of the Mount John Observatory only two months before his death. He was an enthusiastic coordinator of astronomy in New Zealand, and his efforts eventually led to the minor-planet observing program with the Carter Observatory 41-cm reflector. It was the 1977 rediscovery at the Carter Observatory that allowed this minor planet to be numbered. (M 4421) _ _.


Discovered on 8-9-1942 in Turku by Oterma, L.

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