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Discovery[1]
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| Discovered by | James Whitney Young |
| Discovery site | Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California |
| Discovery date | October 27, 2002 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 163626 |
| Alternate name(s) | 2002 UV |
| Epoch November 30, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.7035691 |
| Peri | 2.6978853 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1571024 |
| Orbital period | 2091.5652403 |
| Mean anomaly | 284.08452 |
| Inclination | 2.36236 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 121.25469 |
| Argument of peri | 27.32176 |
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Physical characteristics
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| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.0 |
163626 Glatfelter (2002 UV) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 2002 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.[1]
Named for Pam Glatfelter, the current site manager, at the discoverer's workplace Table Mountain Observatory, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924.