Talk:132 Aethra

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It appears that Aethra was lost soon after discovery, and is mentioned in a context that implies it was still lost in Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. v005 p00067 (1919) "Perturbations and Tables of the Minor Planets Discovered by James C. Watson". Evidently it has since been recovered. It seems a safe bet that it's Mars-crossing habits and the perturbations that exercised people for approaching 50 years (or more!) after it's discovery are not unrelated, but I can't find out more with my small store of astronomical knowledge. I'm reasonably sure there's an interesting story to be told here, but I don't have the knowledge to dig it out myself.