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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

pickeringia
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In botany it is the name of a genus of plants belonging to the legume family, Fabaceae. It means dedicated to Pickering, who is the pearl of two American astronomer brothers, named Edward Charles and William Henry Pickering. Pickering is also the name of a city in Ontario in Canada for this very reason. Name of an asteroid (784), which was formerly named 1914 UM by astronomers.

  




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Pickeringia: Asteroid number 784, of the series. -(Pickeringia with a capital P).

  



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