Pickeringia

(1914 UM )

NOW @ 21 SAG 12

Inclination: 12.28

Eccentricity: 0.241

Period: 5.456 years

AU 3.099

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

20.3.1914 00:00 Winchester 24e45 59n26 observations 0

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Named in honor of the brothers Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), director of Harvard Observatory, and William Henry Pickering (1858–1930), director of Arequipa {see planet (737)} Observatory and discoverer (1898) of the ninth satellite of Saturn. (H 78) _ _.

Discovered on 20-3-1914 in Winchester by Metcalf, J. H.
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