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MINOR PLANETS.—The number of discoveries in the group of minor planets during the year 1879 is twenty, against twelve in the preceding year, so that there is no present indication that we are getting to the end of them. Elements more or less approximate have been calculated for seventeen out of the twenty new ones, but no one of the orbits has any peculiarity. We subjoin their ordinal numbers, names so far as published, discoverers and dates of discovery, with their magnitudes at the time.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 21, 240 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021240a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021240a0