Schaber

(1980 TG5 )
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NOW @ 21 AQU 11
FOUND @ 13 ARI 5
 
Inclination: 11.963
Eccentricity: 0.221
Period: 5.551 years
AU 3.135
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

9.10.1980 07:56 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Gerald G. Schaber, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of the branch of astrogeology since 1983. Schaber is specially recognized for his research on the geology of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and the satellite Io and for the application of radar to the investigation of the terrestrial planets. He was a codiscoverer, with J. F. McCauley and C. S. Breed, of the ancient buried river channels of the western desert of Egypt. (M 10549) _ _.


Discovered on 9-10-1980 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.

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