La Condamine

(1996 NA4 )
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NOW @ 21 VIR 2
FOUND @ 28 AQU 51
 
Inclination: 1.752
Eccentricity: 0.072
Period: 4.921 years
AU 2.893
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

14.7.1996 06:38 La Silla 70w44 29s15 observations 1


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Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701–1774), a French naturalist and mathematician, went to Peru (1735–1743) to measure the length of a meridional arc of one degree. On his way home he made important ethnographic observations, published as Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi a l’équateur. (M 47163) _ _.


Discovered on 14-7-1996 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.

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