13622 McArthur
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| Discovery and designation | |
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| Discovered by | Spacewatch |
| Discovery site | Kitt Peak |
| Discovery date | April 26, 1995 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 13622 |
| Alternative names | 1995 HY2 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.7798287 |
| Perihelion | 2.6735675 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1714231 |
| Orbital period | 2117.0734565 |
| Mean anomaly | 188.73745 |
| Inclination | 3.26910 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 128.38922 |
| Argument of perihelion | 332.01906 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.5 |
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13622 McArthur (1995 HY2) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on April 26, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.
It was named for computer programmer Guy K. McArthur (born 1971), of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He was instrumental in creating the Planetary Data System archive for the 2001 Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer.
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