Monday, 24 May 2021

An asteroid for Manchester

 

758 Mancuria

On May 18th 1912 Harry Edwin Wood who was chief assistant at the Union Observatory in South Africa discovered an asteroid, it was named Mancuria after the city in which he was born, Manchester. He would discover 12 asteroids between 1911-1932.


Mancuria is the Latin name for Manchester


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