Pompeja

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NOW @ 14 PIS 25
FOUND @ 16 ARI 30
 
Inclination: 3.172
Eccentricity: 0.06
Period: 4.528 years
AU 2.737
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

25.9.1879 00:00 Clinton 75w24 43n3 observations 0


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The discoverer wrote: “For the planet, whose discovery very coincided with the day, when at Pompeji was commemorated the destruction of that city by Mt. Vesuvius 18 centuries ago, I believed the name Pompeja eminently proper.” (AN 96, 336 (1880)) _ _.


Discovered on 25-9-1879 in Clinton by Peters, C. H. F.

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