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AN ASTEROID-ORBIT OF GREAT ECCENTRICITY.—Prof. E. C. Pickering announces that from an examination of a plate taken on August 14, 1901, with the Bruce telescope, Dr. Stewart found an asteroid having the rgreat southern declination, –62°. Fourteen photographs were taken up to November 13, furnishing approximate positions for the computation of the orbit. A circular orbit was first calculated, which gave the surprising result that the heliocentric diurnal motion exceeded 2200″, indicating a distance from the sun less than that of any known asteroid. Prof. Newcomb furnishes the following elements:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 65, 161 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065161a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065161a0