Tambora

(1998 MT38 )
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NOW @ 5 CAP 56
FOUND @ 0 AQU 17
 
Inclination: 5.404
Eccentricity: 0.086
Period: 3.73 years
AU 2.405
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

26.6.1998 07:23 La Silla 70w44 29s15 observations 1


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Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa (Indonesia) is an active volcano that exploded in April 1815. It was the most powerful eruption in recorded history, and resulted in a brief period of significant world-wide climate change, including the “Year without a Summer” (1816).


Discovered on 26-6-1998 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.

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