9930 Billburrows
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| Discovered by | E. Bowell | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | February 5, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9930 Billburrows | ||||||||||||
| 1984 CP, 1961 CO, 1961 EF, 1980 BB6 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.6916381 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.1827479 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.437193 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1044009 | ||||||||||||
| 1389.7392463 d | |||||||||||||
| 37.83896° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.45258° | ||||||||||||
| 125.43599° | |||||||||||||
| 78.69767° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~12.9 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 13.9 | |||||||||||||
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9930 Billburrows is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.80 years.[3]
Discovered on February 5, 1984 by Ted Bowell working at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "1984 CP". It was later renamed "Billburrows" after William E. Burrows, a professor at New York University who founded the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting school there.[4] The name was suggested by E. M. Standish.[5]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F.; Noah P.V.; Noah M.; Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ Gianluca Masi; Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel. "Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog".
- ↑ "9930 Billburrows (1984 CP)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ↑ "Journalism at NYU - Science, Health and Environmental Reporting". New York University.
- ↑ MPC 43043 Minor Planet Center
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