Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. Published Reference List: [Galad, A. (2009) Minor Planet Bul. 36, 183-186.]
44217 Whittle
Discovered 1998 Aug. 12 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek.
British aeronautical engineer and pilot Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was the inventor of the turbo-jet engine, which he first patented in 1930. Such an ingenious yet simple method of high-speed propulsion made flight an affordable and relatively safe form of travel for the masses.
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