4783 Wasson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Discovery and designation | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. S. Shoemaker |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | January 12, 1983 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4783 |
| Alternative names | 1983 AH1 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.0814877 |
| Perihelion | 2.0225563 |
| Eccentricity | 0.2074691 |
| Orbital period | 1489.1040396 |
| Mean anomaly | 83.30733 |
| Inclination | 16.60152 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 109.42175 |
| Argument of perihelion | 357.29800 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Geometric albedo | 0.0455 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.70 |
|
| |
4783 Wasson (1983 AH1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1983 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. The asteroid was named after John Wasson, a professor and researcher of cosmological chemistry at UCLA.[1]
References
External links
| |||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.