Hermes

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5263. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Asteroids

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An Apollo asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1937, provisionally designated 1937 UB. Hermes is the only asteroid to have been given a name without first having received a permanent number and having had its orbit accurately calculated. On 30 October 1937 it passed Earth at a distance of 733 000 km, a close-approach record that stood for over 50 years. The parameters of its orbit are approxim...

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