Halliday

(1981 WP1 )
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NOW @ 20 CAP 49
FOUND @ 0 CAN 0
 
Inclination: 7.546
Eccentricity: 0.151
Period: 3.647 years
AU 2.369
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.11.1981 07:03 Anderson Mesa 111w32 35n5 observations 1


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Named in honor of Ian Halliday, an astronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada. Halliday has achieved international recognition in three major areas of research in meteoritics: spectroscopy, dynamics and meteorite recovery. He was the first to identify the auroral green line in the spectra of meteors; he planned and directed a large Canadian camera network called the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project (MORP) and together with his staff determined the definitive photographic orbits of 360 fireballs; and while leading a search party Halliday found the first and largest piece of the Innisfree meteorite, one of only three meteorites recovered entirely on the basis of network photography. Halliday was able to identify six photographic trails with the corresponding six largest Innisfree fragments discovered in the fall area — a unique achievement. He also used MORP data on... _ _.


Discovered on 24-11-1981 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.

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