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