20793 Goldinaaron

Goldinaaron
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team
Discovery site Socorro
Discovery date September 24, 2000
Designations
MPC designation 20793
Alternate name(s) 2000 SF118
Epoch May 14, 2008
Ap 2.9464161
Peri 2.3020241
Eccentricity 0.1227778
Orbital period 1552.7402458
Mean anomaly 312.85316
Inclination 2.52315
Longitude of ascending node 81.45133
Argument of peri 265.27756
Absolute magnitude (H) 15.0

20793 Goldinaaron (2000 SF118) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.

It was named for Aaron Goldin, the 2004 winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. He also won the 2004 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. That same year, he attended the Summer Science Program, which teach astronomy, calculus, and physics through observations of an asteroid and calculation of its orbit.[1]

References

  1. ^ "The Universal Times" (pdf). Summer Science Program. Fall 2005. http://www.ssp.org/downloads/UT2005.pdf. Retrieved November 29, 2010. 

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