Frolova

(1978 PD3 )
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NOW @ 23 LIB 16
FOUND @ 15 PIS 21
 
Inclination: 6.198
Eccentricity: 0.12
Period: 3.618 years
AU 2.357
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

8.8.1978 23:20 Nauchnyj 34e1 44n32 observations 1


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Named in honor of Natalia Borisovna Frolova, assistant professor of astronomy at Ural State University in Ekaterinburg. She worked on a detailed catalogue of stars along the path of comet 1P/Halley, and this contributed to the success of the space missions Vega and Giotto. As a leader in educating local schoolchildren about astronomy, she takes an active part in organizing the annual Winter Astronomical Students’ School at Kourovskaya Observatory. (M 34341) _ _.


Discovered on 8-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.

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