73079 Davidbaltimore

**73079 Davidbaltimore**
Discovery ^A

Discoverer	Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project at Palomar
Discovery date	April 14, 2002
Alternate designations ^B	2002 GX₈
Category	Main belt
Orbital elements ^C
Epoch September 22, 2006 (JD 2454000.5 )
Eccentricity (e)	0.184
Semi-major axis (a)	2.327 AU
Perihelion (q)	1.898 AU
Aphelion (Q)	2.755 AU
Orbital period (P)	1296.82 d, 3.55 a
Mean orbital speed	0.277 °/d
Inclination (i)	24.11 °
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω)	203.456 °
Argument of perihelion (ω)	30.05 °
Mean anomaly (M)	70.087 °
Physical characteristics ^D
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Spectral class
Absolute magnitude	15.4
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73079 Davidbaltimore is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional designation was 2002 GX_{8 .}

It was discovered on April 14, 2002 at the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project at Palomar Observatory.

The asteroid was named after David Baltimore (b. 1938), renowned for his Nobel Prize-winning biological research and for his vision and leadership as the seventh president of the California Institute of Technology (1997-2006).