163626 Glatfelter
Discovery[1] | |
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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 2 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (160001)-(165000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
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