Hathor

(1976 UA )
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NOW @ 8 TAU 9
FOUND @ 29 PIS 29
 
Inclination: 5.86
Eccentricity: 0.45
Period: 0.775 years
AU 0.844
Type: 8802

Discovery Chart

22.10.1976 06:40 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Like the other objects of Aten type, (2340) is named for an Egyptian deity. Known as a sky-goddess and the daughter of Ra, Hathor was also identified with Aphrodite. Name proposed by E. Helin, who made an independent discovery of the object and who also made crucial recovery observations in 1981.


Discovered on 22-10-1976 in Palomar by Kowal, C. T.

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