150035 Williamson

150035 Williamson

Discovery[1]
Discovered by	James Whitney Young
Discovery site	Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
Discovery date	20 November 2005
Designations
MPC designation	150035
Alternative names	2005 WO
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	5880 days (16.10 yr)
Aphelion	3.3403095 AU (499.70319 Gm)
Perihelion	2.8873913 AU (431.94759 Gm)
Semi-major axis	3.113850 AU (465.8253 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.0727264
Orbital period	5.49 yr (2007.0 d)
Mean anomaly	25.22324°
Mean motion	0.1793732°/day
Inclination	11.35514°
Longitude of ascending node	66.77657°
Argument of perihelion	269.71971°
Earth MOID	1.90572 AU (285.092 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	1.94403 AU (290.823 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.5,[3] 14.8[2]

150035 Williamson (2005 WO) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 20, 2005 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.^[1]

Named for Bruce Williamson, a machinist, at the discoverer's workplace of 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. "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (150001)-(155000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
2. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 150035 Williamson (2005 WO)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
3. Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2009.

External links

• JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 150035 Williamson
• 150035 Williamson at the JPL Small-Body Database

• Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters