Grissom

(1963 UD )
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NOW @ 6 LEO 34
FOUND @ 19 TAU 52
 
Inclination: 7.302
Eccentricity: 0.163
Period: 4.555 years
AU 2.748
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

17.10.1963 08:23 Brooklyn 24e45 59n26 observations 1


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Named in memory of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (1926-1967), one of the seven Mercury astronauts. On 1961 July 21, as pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 suborbital mission, he became the second American in space. In 1965 he commanded a three-orbit mission, the first manned Gemini flight. As command pilot of Apollo 1, he lost his life in the tragic fire in that spacecraft. Name proposed by D. Owings and F. K. Edmondson. Citation prepared by Muriel M. Thorne, NASA.


Discovered on 17-10-1963 in Brooklyn by Indiana University

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