10739 Lowman

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Eades
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Eugene M. and Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Discovery site Palomar
Discovery date May 12, 1988
Designations
MPC designation 10739
Alternative names 1988 JB1
Orbital characteristics
Epoch January 4, 2010
Aphelion 4.3925831
Perihelion 1.8962259
Eccentricity 0.3969523
Orbital period 2036.6013468
Mean anomaly 326.11322
Inclination 20.05048
Longitude of ascending node 149.79879
Argument of perihelion 83.82983
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H) 14.5

    10739 Lowman (1988 JB1) is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Eugene M. and Carolyn S. Shoemaker on Mary 12, 1988 and named after canopy ecologist Margaret D. Lowman.[1]

    Lowman makes its closest planetary approaches to Mars but does not make particularly close approaches to it; from 1600 to 2400 it comes within 100 Gm only nine times, with the nearest pass being 81 Gm in 1809.

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    References

    1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Retrieved 24 December 2008. 
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