Brownlee

(1984 SZ4 )
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NOW @ 29 ARI 15
FOUND @ 5 TAU 26
 
Inclination: 15.479
Eccentricity: 0.122
Period: 5.635 years
AU 3.167
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

25.9.1984 12:25 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Donald E. Brownlee, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. Brownlee is renowned for his successful recovery, identification and chemical and minerological investigation of extraterrestrial particles from the atmosphere — the “Brownlee” particles. He showed that many of these particles very probably are cometary dust. Brownlee also extracted and studied extraterrestrial particles from deep sea sediments and polar ice. His results from the interplanetary dust captured by the earth provide especially important clues about the material from which comets accreted. (M 18450) _ _.


Discovered on 25-9-1984 in Palomar by Platt, J.

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