Demokritos

(1989 RB2 )
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NOW @ 20 GEM 30
FOUND @ 22 PIS 36
 
Inclination: 6.503
Eccentricity: 0.169
Period: 4.677 years
AU 2.797
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

4.9.1989 23:14 Haute Provence 5e43 43n56 observations 1


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Named for the Greek philosopher Demokritos of Abdera (460–380 B.C.), well-known for his atomistic theory of matter. He was a pupil of Leukippos {see planet  (5950)}, to whom he owed many ideas. His great concern was to harmonize Ionic cosmology with Greek ontology, and he is credited with at least 57 works on ethics, physics, nature, mathematics and art. He considered an observation to be the result of an interaction between observer and observed. (M 24919) _ _.


Discovered on 4-9-1989 in Haute Provence by Elst, E. W.

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