Phocaea

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CURRENT POSITION: 14 GEM 19

DISCOVERY POSITION: 17 SCO 12

Incl: 21.60654

Eccent: 0.2549971

Period: 3.7175483847637 years

AU 2.3997041

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

6.4.1853 00:00 Marseilles 5e24 43n18 observations 0

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Named after a maritime town of Ionia in Asia Minor with colonies in Italy, Spain, and France. Beset by the tyrant Haspages a group of the inhabitants built Massalia (Marseilles, see planet (20)), sometimes designated Phocaica, about 600 B.C. (H 5; AN 36, 279 (1853))

Named by B. Valz.

Discovered on 6-4-1853 in Marseilles by Chacornac, J.
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