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Inclination: 5.68
Eccentricity: 0.217
Period: 3.398 years
AU 2.26
Type: 0000
eert
Discovery Chart
6.3.1981 00:00 Siding Spring 149.066 -31.2768 observations 1
Joseph Otis Patterson III (b. 1946) is a professor of astronomy at Columbia University specializing in the study of cataclysmic variable stars. His outreach to high school students has inspired professional careers spanning from optics to asteroids, stellar physics, galaxies and cosmology.
Discovered on 6-3-1981 in Siding Spring by Bus, S. J.