163626 Glatfelter
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | James Whitney Young |
| Discovery site | Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California |
| Discovery date | 27 October 2002 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 163626 |
| 2002 UV | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 4891 days (13.39 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.7117893 AU (555.27578 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.6912479 AU (402.60496 Gm) |
| 3.2015186 AU (478.94037 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1593840 |
| 5.73 yr (2092.3 d) | |
| 12.426606° | |
| 0.17205608°/day | |
| Inclination | 2.3628359° |
| 121.24769° | |
| 26.582083° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.70328 AU (254.807 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.30095 AU (194.619 Gm) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 15.2 | |
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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.
- ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 163626 Glatfelter (2002 UV)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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