21751 Jennytaylor
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | LINEAR |
Discovery date | September 9, 1999 |
Designations | |
1990 DT2 1999 RT176 | |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch March 6, 2006 (JD 2453800.5) | |
Aphelion | 405.789 Gm (2.713 AU) |
Perihelion | 305.371 Gm (2.041 AU) |
355.580 Gm (2.377 AU) | |
Eccentricity | 0.141 |
1338.494 d (3.66 a) | |
Average orbital speed | 19.22 km/s |
149.352° | |
Inclination | 1.529° |
253.356° | |
238.359° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 3-6 km |
Mass | 2.8-23×1013 kg |
Mean density | 2.0? g/cm³ |
0.0008-0.0017 m/s² | |
0.0016-0.0032 km/s | |
? d | |
Albedo | 0.10? |
Temperature | ~181 K |
Spectral type | ? |
15.1 | |
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Minor planet (21751) Jennytaylor was named in honor of Jennifer Taylor who placed second in the Environmental Science Category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. Her research focused on identifying the levels and potential sources of prescription antibiotic contamination in the Tennessee River in the Shoals, Alabama, area. This research was a continuation of her previous work presented at ISEF 2004 in which she detected multidrug resistant pathogens in that area of the Tennessee River.
This minor planet was discovered September 9, 1999, by the LINEAR program of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
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