150035 Williamson

150035 Williamson
Discovery[1]
Discovered by James Whitney Young
Discovery site Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
Discovery date November 20, 2005
Designations
MPC designation 150035
2005 WO
Orbital characteristics
Epoch November 30, 2008
Aphelion 3.3408059
Perihelion 2.8842509
Eccentricity 0.0733415
2005.7112628
274.94595
Inclination 11.35360
67.00299
273.45805
Physical characteristics
14.5 [2]

    150035 Williamson (2005 WO) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 20, 2005 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.[1]

    Named for Bruce Williamson, a machinist, at the discoverer's workplace of Table Mountain Observatory, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924.

    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (150001)-(155000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
    2. Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2009.

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