Strabo

(1133 T-2 )
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NOW @ 27 TAU 49
FOUND @ 2 ARI 17
 
Inclination: 1.305
Eccentricity: 0.027
Period: 4.96 years
AU 2.908
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

29.9.1973 06:04 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named after the Greek geographer Strabo (Greek Strabon: 63 B.C.-c. A.D. 23), who devoted himself to historical and geographical studies and who took long journeys through Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece and Italy. His 47-volume Historical Sketches exists today only as fragments, but his 17-volume Geographica survives almost intact. (M 20161) _ _.


Discovered on 29-9-1973 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

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