3700 Geowilliams

Geowilliams
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E.
Discovery site Palomar
Discovery date October 23, 1984
Designations
MPC designation 3700
Alternate name(s) 1984 UL2
Epoch May 14, 2008
Ap 2.9610049
Peri 1.8668931
Eccentricity 0.2266228
Orbital period 1369.9053411
Mean anomaly 67.54330
Inclination 12.13471
Longitude of ascending node 289.29374
Argument of peri 153.13432
Absolute magnitude (H) 12.5

3700 Geowilliams (1984 UL2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1984 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar.

Named in honor of George E. Williams, exploration geologist with Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd. at Adelaide, South Australia. Williams discovered the Lake Acraman impact structure of South Australia, the largest such feature found so far on the Australian continent. He also discovered rhythmically layered sedimentary deposits of Precambrian age that exhibit periods closely matching those of the modern solar cycle.

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