Minor planet Hermes recovered

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Feb 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004jbaa..114....4h&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.114, no.1, p.4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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For many years the only named minor planet without a number was Hermes. This body was found at about ninth magnitude on a photograph taken by Karl Reinmuth observing from Heidelberg on 1937 October 28, and carried the discovery designation 1937 UB. The asteroid was making a very close pass to the Earth and thus moving rapidly across the sky (about 5 degrees per hour); at its closest it passed only 0.005AU from us, which is about twice the distance of the Moon. It went from opposition to conjunction in only two days and was lost almost immediately afterwards, having only been observed for a period of five days. Due to the shortness of the observed arc subsequent recovery was considered unlikely.

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