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Lewis Swift: celebrated comet hunter and the people's astronomer
This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects. All 13 comets found by Swift now bear his name, including three periodic comets with periods of 6 years (11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR), 9 years (64P/Swift-Gehrels), and 133 years (...
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Springer
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63721-1 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2287902 |