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Designations
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| MPC designation | 16037 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1999 GX8 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.4046059 |
| Peri | 3.0432867 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0560368 |
| Orbital period | 2114.3658118 |
| Mean anomaly | 138.74668 |
| Inclination | 15.26856 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 187.44296 |
| Argument of peri | 97.36967 |
| Geometric albedo | 0.0338 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.30 |
16037 Sheehan (1999 GX8) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on April 10, 1999, by Edward Bowell, of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. The asteroid is named for William Sheehan (b. 1954), astronomy historian and psychiatrist.