Philae

(1988 PV1 )

NOW @ 28 VIR 40

Inclination: 4.572

Eccentricity: 0.167

Period: 3.468 years

AU 2.291

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

12.8.1988 00:00 Haute Provence 5e43 43n56 observations 1

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Philae is an island (now submerged) in Lake Nasser, Egypt. It is also the name of the lander of the Rosetta space probe that landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 2014 November 12.

Discovered on 12-8-1988 in Haute Provence by Elst, E. W.
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