3640 Gostin

Gostin
Discovery
Discovered by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E.
Discovery site Palomar
Discovery date 11 October 1985
Designations
MPC designation 3640
1985 TR3
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 22100 days (60.51 yr)
Aphelion 2.4158724 AU (361.40937 Gm)
Perihelion 2.0331222 AU (304.15075 Gm)
2.224497 AU (332.7800 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.0860307
3.32 yr (1211.8 d)
347.14372°
0° 17m 49.446s / day
Inclination 4.311460°
289.25606°
155.40312°
Earth MOID 1.04972 AU (157.036 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.73535 AU (409.203 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.638
Physical characteristics
3.2641 h (0.13600 d)
12.5

    3640 Gostin (1985 TR3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1985 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar.

    It is named after geologist Victor A. Gostin[2] of the University of Adelaide, who in the 1980s discovered the ejecta layer from the Acraman bolide impact at a distance of 300 km from the impact site, within Ediacaran sedimentary rocks of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, which enabled the impact to be dated at ~580 Ma.[3]

    References

    1. ↑ "3640 Gostin (1985 TR3)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
    2. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003): Dictionary of minor planet names, 5th Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN 3-540-00238-3 . Google Books preview, 21 September 2010
    3. ↑ Gostin, V.A.; Haines, P.W.; Jenkins, R.J.F.; Compston, W.; Williams, I.S. (1986). "Impact Ejecta Horizon Within Late Precambrian Shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia". Science 233 (4760): 198–200. Bibcode:1986Sci...233..198G. doi:10.1126/science.233.4760.198. PMID 17737290.

    External links


    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, April 15, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.