Gassendi

(1991 GQ6 )
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NOW @ 23 ARI 4
FOUND @ 25 LIB 25
 
Inclination: 1.127
Eccentricity: 0.131
Period: 5.023 years
AU 2.933
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

8.4.1991 02:37 La Silla 70w44 29s15 observations 1


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Named for the French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). Originally trained in theology, he came under the influence of the mathematician-theologian Mersenne. On 1631 Nov. 7 he made the first known observation of a transit of Mercury, thereby confirming the work of Kepler {see planet  (1134)}. As a philosopher, he revived Epicureanism as a substitute for Aristotelianism. At Mersenne’s request, he refuted Descartes’ {see planet  (3587)} Meditations in his Disquisitio Metaphysica (1644). In his great Syntagma Philosophicum, finally published as part of his opera omnia in 1658, he rejected the innate ideas of Descartes and favored the senses as the primary sources of knowledge. (M 31025) _ _.


Discovered on 8-4-1991 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.

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