73079 Davidbaltimore
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| Discovery A | |
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| Discoverer | Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project at Palomar |
| Discovery date | April 14, 2002 |
| Alternate designations B |
2002 GX8 |
| Category | Main belt |
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| 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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| Absolute magnitude | 15.4 |
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73079 Davidbaltimore is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional designation was 2002 GX8 .
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).
[edit] See also
- Asteroid belt
- List of asteroids named after people
- List of asteroids/73001–74000
- Meanings of asteroid names (73001-74000)
- David Baltimore
[edit] External links
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser. 73079 Davidbaltimore.
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