Finsen

(1970 GA )
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NOW @ 6 CAP 33
Inclination: 14.659
Eccentricity: 0.157
Period: 5.525 years
AU 3.125
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

7.4.1970 00:00 Hartbeespoort 24e45 59n26 observations 1


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Named in honor of W. S. Finsen {1905–1979}, Director of the Republic Observatory from 1957 to 1965. He has contributed immensely to the discovery and observation of double stars both micrometrically and by means of the eyepiece interferometer he invented. (M 3297) _ _.


Discovered on 7-4-1970 in Hartbeespoort by Bruwer, J. A.

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