Lowell

(1949 MP )
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NOW @ 9 CAN 16
FOUND @ 25 SAG 6
 
Inclination: 14.882
Eccentricity: 0.158
Period: 4.259 years
AU 2.628
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

21.6.1949 07:11 Flagstaff 111w40 35n12 observations 1


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Named in honor of Percival Lowell {1855–1916}, the founder, director and endower of Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell, during his lifetime and beginning in 1905 directed three searches of the ecliptic for a trans-Neptunian planet. In all these surveys positions for all the minor planets found were measured and he was the discoverer of (793) Arizona. (M 4157) _ _.


Avastatud: 21-6-1949 Avastamiskoht: Flagstaff Avastajad: Giclas, H. L.

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