| 43955 Fixlmüller | Discovered 1997 Feb. 6 by E. Meyer and E. Obermair at the Davidschlag Observatory, Linz. |
| Placidus Fixlmüller (1721-1791), director of the astronomical observatory of the abbey in Kremsmünster, Upper Austria, worked on the orbit of Uranus and calculated a precise value for the solar parallax from observations collected worldwide during the transit of Venus in 1769. |
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| Reference: 20050125/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2005-06-01 |
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