Abell

(1978 VR9 )
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NOW @ 15 SCO 27
FOUND @ 17 GEM 34
 
Inclination: 2.037
Eccentricity: 0.15
Period: 5.418 years
AU 3.085
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

7.11.1978 06:29 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in memory of George O. Abell (1927–1983), astronomer at the University of California at Los Angeles, noted author, lecturer, educator, popularizer of astronomy and long-time director of the Summer Science Program of Thacher School in Ojai, California. As a graduate student, he took a large fraction of the plates for the Palomar-National Geographic Sky Survey, and his analysis of them produced the Abell catalogue of rich clusters of galaxies. In addition, he discovered a new class of planetary nebulae and showed that planetary nebulae represent a normal phase in the evolution of solar-mass stars in the disks of galaxies. (M 11162) _ _.


Discovered on 7-11-1978 in Palomar by Helin, E. F., Bus, S. J.

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