Grant

(1984 SO3 )
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NOW @ 22 CAN 51
FOUND @ 25 ARI 55
 
Inclination: 2.474
Eccentricity: 0.172
Period: 5.462 years
AU 3.101
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

28.9.1984 08:35 Anderson Mesa 111w32 35n5 observations 1


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Named in memory of Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885), eighteenth president of the United States and lieutenant general commanding the armies of the Union during the American Civil War. Grant served with distinction as a young lieutenant during the Mexican War and afterward resigned his commission to enter civilian life. Having failed at several dozen occupations, a poor, distraught Grant entered the volunteer service as a colonel at the outbreak of the Civil War. Grant captured Fort Donelson on the Tennessee River and Vicksburg on the Mississippi, and this transformed him from an obscure army commander to the best-known general in Blue. In the spring of 1864 Lincoln {see planet  (3153)} promoted him to general-in-chief; his crunching “May Campaign” through Virginia ended in Lee’s {see planet  (3155)} surrender at Appomattox Court House on 1865 Apr. 9. (M 16442) _ _.


Discovered on 28-9-1984 in Anderson Mesa by Skiff, B. A.

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