3640 Gostin (1985 TR3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1985 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar.
It is named after geologist Victor A. Gostin[1] of the University of Adelaide, who in the 1980s discovered the ejecta layer from the Acraman bolide impact at a distance of 300 km from the impact site, within Ediacaran sedimentary rocks of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, which enabled the impact to be dated at ~580 Ma.[2]
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- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003): Dictionary of minor planet names, 5th Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN 3-540-00238-3 . Google Books preview, 21 September 2010
- ↑ Gostin, V.A.; Haines, P.W.; Jenkins, R.J.F.; Compston, W.; Williams, I.S. (1986). "Impact Ejecta Horizon Within Late Precambrian Shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia". Science 233 (4760): 198–200. Bibcode:1986Sci...233..198G. doi:10.1126/science.233.4760.198. PMID 17737290.