Israel

(7063 P-L )
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NOW @ 17 CAP 29
FOUND @ 1 ARI 21
 
Inclination: 4.296
Eccentricity: 0.212
Period: 3.568 years
AU 2.335
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

17.10.1960 06:30 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Frank P. Israel (1946– ), Dutch astronomer in Leiden, on the occasion of his 51st birthday. Before moving to the Leiden Observatory he worked at the California Institute of Technology and at the European Space Agency. His fields of interest are radio astronomical observations of dense interstellar clouds in galaxies, in particular the study of mass concentrations in the center of galaxies. (M 31026) _ _.


Discovered on 17-10-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

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