7166 Kennedy
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7166 Kennedy is an asteroid which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 10 October 1985. Initially designated 1985 TR, it was named on 8 August 1998 in memory of Malcolm Kennedy (1944-1997), Secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow, who died in a road accident in Hungary, November 1997, on a mercy mission carrying aid to eastern Europe.
Orbital elements, physical paramaters and full discovery circumstances can be found at the JPL Small-Body Database.
Vulcanoids · Near-Earth asteroids · Main belt · Jupiter Trojans · Centaurs · Damocloids · Comets · Trans-Neptunians (Kuiper belt • Scattered disc • Oort cloud)
For other objects and regions, see Asteroid groups and families, Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons and the Solar System.
For a complete listing, see List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names.
