Steffl

(1979 MC2 )
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NOW @ 5 GEM 57
FOUND @ 1 AQU 31
 
Inclination: 2.171
Eccentricity: 0.037
Period: 4.762 years
AU 2.83
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

25.6.1979 15:53 Siding Spring 149e3 31s16 observations 1


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Andrew J. Steffl (b. 1977), an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in July 2005 independently discovered Pluto's second and third satellites, using Hubble Space Telescope images.


Discovered on 25-6-1979 in Siding Spring by Helin, E. F., Bus, S. J.

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