3689 Yeates
3689 Yeates (1981 JJ2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1981 by C. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.
Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of
Mineral Resources of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the course of
regional geologic mapping at the southern edge of the Great Sandy desert of
Western Australia, Yeates led a team of geologists that discovered the
Veevers crater. This site, discovered in 1975, is the fifteenth
and latest recognized locality throughout the world where meteorites have been found associated
with an impact crater.[1]
References
- ↑ Shoemaker EM, Shoemaker CS (1985). "Impact structures of Western Australia". Meteoritics 20: 754–6. PDF
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