Elmer

(1978 XC )
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NOW @ 2 PIS 35
FOUND @ 2 CAN 17
 
Inclination: 8.729
Eccentricity: 0.169
Period: 4.661 years
AU 2.79
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

1.12.1978 06:50 Harvard 71w8 42n23 observations 1


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Named in memory of Charles Wesley Elmer (1872–1954), whose meeting with Richard S. Perkin {see planet  (2482)} at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration in 1936 led to the establishment of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation two years later. Director of the astronomy department at the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, he founded the Amateur Astronomers Association in New York City and the Custer Institute in Southold, Long Island. His summer abode in Southold long served as a lending repository of telescopes for amateur astronomers. (M 8404) _ _.


Discovered on 1-12-1978 in Harvard by Harvard Observatory

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