8373 Stephengould
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | January 1, 1992 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 8373 |
Named after | Stephen Jay Gould |
| 1992 AB | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch November 30, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 5.1004 |
| Perihelion | 1.4662 |
| 3.28332 | |
| Eccentricity | 0.553433 |
| 2173.05 | |
| 286.98 | |
| Inclination | 40.77 |
| 88.879 | |
| 55.533 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 13.8 | |
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8373 Stephengould (1992 AB) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1, 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar.[1] The asteroid was named after the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.
This is a member of the Griqua family of asteroids that share similar orbital elements.[3] It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (5001)-(10000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
- ↑ "(8373) Stephengould". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
- ↑ Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin, eds. (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 164–165.
- ↑ Roig, F.; Nesvorný, D.; Ferraz-Mello, S. (September 2002). "Asteroids in the 2 : 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 335 (2): 417–431. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.335..417R. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05635.x.
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