Armstrong

(1982 PC )
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NOW @ 22 LEO 31
FOUND @ 2 PIS 40
 
Inclination: 3.96
Eccentricity: 0.204
Period: 3.306 years
AU 2.219
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

14.8.1982 23:07 Klet 14e17 48n53 observations 1


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Named in honor of Neil Alden Armstrong (1930– ), U.S. astronaut, the first man to set foot on the moon. In 1966 he and David Scott aboard Gemini 8 conducted the first docking in space. In 1969, along with Aldrin and Collins {see planets  (6470) and  (6471)}, he blasted off in Apollo 11 toward the moon, and on July 20 the Eagle module landed on a plain near the southwestern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. This minor planet commemorates the 30th anniversary of the first manned lunar-landing mission. (M 34623) _ _.


Discovered on 14-8-1982 in Klet by Mrkos, A.

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