4843 Mégantic
4843 Mégantic is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1982.1094798 days (5.43 years).[1] It has a diameter of about 26.02 kilometres (16 mi) from observations with the IRAS infrared space telescope during the 1980s.[1]
The asteroid was discovered on February 28, 1990.
It is named for Mont Mégantic Observatory, which opened in 1978 in Canada.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ↑ The Mont-Mégantic Observatory
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