Crabtree

(1970 WC )

NOW @ 3 GEM 36

Inclination: 3.802

Eccentricity: 0.019

Period: 3.636 years

AU 2.365

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.11.1970 00:00 Bergedorf 10e14 53n29 observations 1

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William Crabtree (1610-1644), a cloth merchant in Salford, near Manchester, became the second person knowingly to observe a transit of Venus, after he had been alerted to the 1639 event by Jeremiah Horrocks.

Discovered on 24-11-1970 in Bergedorf by Kohoutek, L.
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