Ambrosia

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NOW @ 23 AQU 44
FOUND @ 21 VIR 11
 
Inclination: 11.994
Eccentricity: 0.298
Period: 4.191 years
AU 2.599
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

28.2.1879 00:00 Marseilles 5e24 43n18 observations 0


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Named for the food of the gods. Their drink was nectar. Ambrosia gives the gods immortality. This is also the name of one of the Hyades which have been originally nymphs, daughters of Atlas and Aethra {see planet  (132)}. The second interpretation seems more likely because Coggia named another planet after one of these nymphs {see planet  (217)}. (H 24; LDS) _ _.


Discovered on 28-2-1879 in Marseilles by Coggia, J.

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