Maxine

(1983 LM )
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NOW @ 0 CAN 15
FOUND @ 5 AQU 41
 
Inclination: 12.556
Eccentricity: 0.167
Period: 4.297 years
AU 2.643
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

14.6.1983 08:33 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Maxine Shoemaker Heath, sister of the second discoverer. An entomologist at the University of Illinois, Heath is a leading authority on the cicadas of North America and Argentina. Her research on thermoregulation in cicadas, in collaboration with James E. Heath, led to their discovery of several species of warm-blooded cicadas in the forests and thorn scrub of Argentina. (M 15575) _ _.


Discovered on 14-6-1983 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M.

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