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sidereal period (not synodic); Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. Published Reference List: [Durech, J.; Hanus, J.; Ali-Lagoa, V. (2018) Astron. Astrophys. 617, A57.]
Discovered 1991 Aug. 6 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.
Claude Aubriet (1651-1742), a French painter of natural history, accompanied botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort on his 1700 voyage to the Middle East. Aubriet made 489 illustrations for Tournefort's Elémens de Botanique and also made paintings of the voyage.
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