Sagan

(1982 FH )
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NOW @ 4 LEO 57
FOUND @ 8 LIB 8
 
Inclination: 2.734
Eccentricity: 0.069
Period: 3.255 years
AU 2.196
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

21.3.1982 07:41 Anderson Mesa 111w32 35n5 observations 1


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Named in honor of Carl Sagan {1934–1996}, planetary scientist at Cornell University. He has been active on a number of planetary space missions, including the Mariner 9 and Viking missions to Mars and the Voyager mission to the outer planets. Sagan’s research has included studies of the greenhouse effect on Venus, windblown dust on Mars, the atmosphere and surface of Titan, and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligent life. He has been editor of the journal Icarus and won the 1978 Pulitzer prize for literature. A leading popularizer of astronomy, Sagan is founder of the Planetary Society. (M 7158) _ _.


Discovered on 21-3-1982 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.

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