Brooks

(1981 JZ2 )
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NOW @ 28 SAG 15
FOUND @ 13 SCO 34
 
Inclination: 3.669
Eccentricity: 0.142
Period: 3.553 years
AU 2.328
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

6.5.1981 08:06 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of William R. Brooks (1844–1921), American astronomer. As the village photographer at Phelps, New York, he independently discovered comet 1881 V with a 5-inch reflector. Although credited to Denning, this find encouraged Brooks to build a 9 1/4-inch telescope with which he found comet Brooks-Swift 1883 I. During the next 28 years, Brooks discovered 20 more comets to which his name has been attached. Three of those were found during a particularly successful 4-week period in 1886. In 1900 he became professor of astronomy at Hobart College in Geneva, New York. (M 17655) _ _.


Discovered on 6-5-1981 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.

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