Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati WWB2000]$

Details on Acronym:   [WWB2000]
  
[WWB2000] (Werner+Worrall+Birkinshaw, 2000)
 Write:<<[WWB2000]  NNa>>
 N:  13+4
Object:G in ClG  (SIMBAD class: GtowardsCl = Galaxy towards a Cluster of Galaxies)
  Stat:is completely incorporated in Simbad
  Note:N=13 galaxies in 'NAME NGC 6251 Cluster', one    of the subcluster of ZwCl 1609+8212.    Galaxies 6 and 11 have double cores format 'NNa'.
 in source:NAME NGC 6251 Cluster
   Ref:=2000MNRAS.317..105W
     byWERNER P.N.
, WORRALL D.M., BIRKINSHAW M.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 317, 105-110 (2000)

    A spectroscopic study of NGC 6251 and its companion galaxies.

oTable 1: <[WWB2000] NNa> (Nos 1-13, 6a-6b, 11a-11b).
 Originof the Acronym: S = Created by Simbad, the CDS Database