5100 Pasachoff
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5100 Pasachoff is an asteroid. It was named after Professor Jay Pasachoff in 1993 by E. Bowell, the discoverer (1985 GW).
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For 5100 Pasachoff
- semimajor axis: 2.46973814 A.U.
- eccentricity: 0.1351385
- inclination: 7.73827 deg.
- period: 3.88 years
- longitude of ascending node: 101.87185 deg.
- argument of perihelion: 36.14564 deg.
- mean anomaly: 102.24392 deg. (2000.0; 8/1.0/93=JDT 2449200.5)
5100 Pasachoff = 1985 GW Named in honor of Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial professor of astronomy, director of the Hopkins Observatory and chair of the astronomy department of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Pasachoff's broad range of astronomical research has centered on the sun, and especially on studies of solar eclipses. He is also well known for an extensive series of college-level textbooks and popular-astronomy textbooks and articles. Besides being an indefatigable public lecturer, Pasachoff has served as chairperson of the astronomy section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as a committee member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and on the Astrophysics Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
For 68109 Naomipasachoff
- semimajor axis: 2.4713607 A.U.
- eccentricity: 0.1013178
- inclination: 8.71913 deg.
- period: 3.88519 years
- longitude of ascending node: 119.17644 deg.
- argument of perihelion: 170.18571 deg.
- mean anomaly: 355.23766 deg.
68109 Naomipasachoff = 2000 YH135 Discovered 2000 Dec. 17 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station. Naomi Pasachoff (b. 1947) has written scientific biographies of Marie Curie, Alexander Graham Bell, Bohr, Newton, Einstein, Pauling, and others. She has viewed more than 20 solar eclipses, and continues to work on bringing science to the public.
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