142084 Jamesdaniel

Jamesdaniel
Discovery and designation
Discovered by James Whitney Young
Discovery site Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
Discovery date August 29, 2002
Designations
MPC designation 142084
Alternate name(s) 2002 QU47
Epoch November 30, 2008
Ap 2.8150344
Peri 1.9308344
Eccentricity 0.1863094
Orbital period 1335.1407183
Mean anomaly 276.16028
Inclination 0.82774
Longitude of ascending node 331.58517
Argument of peri 332.61983
Absolute magnitude (H) 17.0

142084 Jamesdaniel (2002 QU47) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 29, 2002 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.

Named for the combination of the two first names of James and Daniel, two sons of the discoverer’s friends Bob and Hazel Sealy of Seaside, Oregon. The Sealy family was partly instrumental in the discoverer’s early astronomical career. Bob Sealy founded the Seaside Amateur Astronomers Club and taught astronomy at Clatsop County College in Astoria, Oregon. James Sealy (1951–1978) was killed in a boating accident in 1978 on the ocean near Seaside, Oregon.

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