Gibbs

(1980 LA )
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NOW @ 2 CAN 21
FOUND @ 4 AQU 47
 
Inclination: 21.762
Eccentricity: 0.303
Period: 3.534 years
AU 2.32
Type: 0005

Discovery Chart

14.6.1980 08:33 Anderson Mesa 111w32 35n5 observations 1


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Named in memory of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), mathematician and physicist, who worked at Yale and Princeton Universities. Although his principal work concerned thermodynamics, theories of optics and vector analysis, he made significant contributions to minor-planet studies through his work on orbits. (M 8544) _ _.


Discovered on 14-6-1980 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.

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