Torricelli

(1994 EF3 )
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NOW @ 20 AQU 11
FOUND @ 22 LIB 41
 
Inclination: 6.383
Eccentricity: 0.086
Period: 3.598 years
AU 2.348
Type: 0000

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12.3.1994 23:32 Cima Ekar 11e34 45n51 observations 1


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Named in memory of Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), mathematician and physicist. In 1641 he met and worked with Galileo {see planet  (697)} in Florence. Torricelli continued Galileo’s activities after the latter’s death, making telescopes, microscopes and improving methods of lens-making. Torricelli is known for geometrical studies that presaged the development of calculus, for a theorem in fluid mechanics and for the invention of the barometer. (M 30802) _ _.


Discovered on 12-3-1994 in Cima Ekar by Goretti, V., Boattini, A.

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