Stepanian

(1980 RJ2 )
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NOW @ 3 CAP 40
FOUND @ 9 ARI 18
 
Inclination: 6.463
Eccentricity: 0.261
Period: 4.091 years
AU 2.558
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

7.9.1980 23:00 Nauchnyj 34e1 44n32 observations 1


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Named in honor of husband-and-wife staff members at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory for more than 30 years. Natalia Nikolaevna Stepanian, prominent astrophysicist, is head of the observatory’s solar physics department. Arnol’d Artashesovich Stepanian, head of the gamma-ray laboratory, initiated the construction of the unique 48-element telescope for the observatory’s research on gamma-ray sources. (M 18137) _ _.


Discovered on 7-9-1980 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.

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