17856 Gomes

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Gomes
Designations
MPC designation 17856
Alternative names 1998 KL1
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion 2.7934682
Perihelion 2.5634348
Eccentricity 0.0429415
Orbital period 1601.1208558
Mean anomaly 89.82615
Inclination 2.48737
Longitude of ascending node 32.73678
Argument of perihelion 209.90740
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H) 14.4

    17856 Gomes (1998 KL1) is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered May 18, 1998, by the LONEOS project at Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa site. It is named for Rodney Gomes da Silva (1954 ), who "has produced a series of seminal works on minor planets..."[1]


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