Glarnisch

(1965 SB )
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NOW @ 4 GEM 35
FOUND @ 19 PIS 43
 
Inclination: 2.96
Eccentricity: 0.129
Period: 3.4 years
AU 2.261
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

19.9.1965 22:09 Zimmerwald 7e28 46n53 observations 1


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Named for the most prominent mountain chain near the discoverer’s home town of Glarus {see planet  (1687)}. Its highest summit is 2914 meters above sea level. In 1926 the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky {see planet  (1803)} and one of his friends (the later Nobel laureate in chemistry, Thadeus Reichstein) became the first to climb the upper half of its north wall. (M 21129) _ _.


Discovered on 19-9-1965 in Zimmerwald by Wild, P.

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