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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: tenth planet
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 19:11:05 EST
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In article <6279@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>I seem to recall that Chiron too was discovered from Earth.

It was discovered by Charles Kowal of Caltech using the Palomar 48" Schmidt.
I was there at the time.  I forget the year but it was sometime in the late
seventies.
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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