Behaim

(4730 P-L )

NOW @ 23 LIB 56

Inclination: 4.748

Eccentricity: 0.087

Period: 4.347 years

AU 2.663

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.9.1960 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1

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Martin Behaim (1459-1507) was a German merchant, astronomer and cosmographer from Nürnberg. He traveled through Europe and became a Portuguese knight. He developed the earliest terrestrial globe, Erdapfel, or ‘Earth Apple’, with a diameter of about 50 cm.

Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.
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