163626 Glatfelter
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | James Whitney Young |
| Discovery site | Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California |
| Discovery date | October 27, 2002 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 163626 |
| 2002 UV | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch November 30, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.7035691 |
| Perihelion | 2.6978853 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1571024 |
| 2091.5652403 | |
| 284.08452 | |
| Inclination | 2.36236 |
| 121.25469 | |
| 27.32176 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 15.0 | |
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163626 Glatfelter (2002 UV) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 2002 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.[1]
Named after Pam Glatfelter, the current site manager, at the discoverer's workplace 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (160001)-(165000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved January 3, 2009.