ii Merrill

(4107 T-1 )

NOW @ 6 GEM 26

Inclination: 9.282

Eccentricity: 0.07

Period: 5.62 years

AU 3.161

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

26.3.1971 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1

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Paul W. Merrill (1887-1961), a Mt. Wilson Observatory spectroscopist, was the first to detect a short-lived isotope, of technetium, in the atmospheres of stars, thus confirming that nucleosynthesis must occur in stars.

Discovered on 26-3-1971 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.
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