536 Merapi [SEP] discoverer or inventor
536 Merapi
Merapi (minor planet designation: 536 Merapi) is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by American astronomer George Henry Peters on May 11, 1904, from Washington, D.C.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana, during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 8.809 ± 0.008 hours and a brightness variation of 0.23 ± 0.05 in magnitude.
External links.
- Lightcurve plot of (536) Merapi, Antelope Hills Observatory
Merapi
Merapi may refer to:
- Mount Merapi, an active volcano in Central Java, Indonesia
- 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi
- Mount Marapi (also known as Mount Merapi), an active volcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia
- the stratovolcano Mount Merapi, part of the Ijen volcano complex in Eastern Java, Indonesia
- 536 Merapi, an asteroid
- USS Merapi (AF-38) an Adria-class stores ship acquired in 1945 by the United States Navy for service in World War 2.