Sather

(2631 P-L )
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NOW @ 10 LEO 54
FOUND @ 9 ARI 25
 
Inclination: 1.572
Eccentricity: 0.169
Period: 5.635 years
AU 3.166
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.9.1960 09:53 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory research assistant and high-school teacher Bob Sather, who has published lightcurves of asteroids and discovered a new method of determining the orientation of asteroidal rotational axes in space. (M 11161) _ _.


Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

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