3854 George

George

Discovery
Discovered by	C.S. and E.M. Shoemaker
Discovery site	Palomar
Discovery date	13 March 1983
Designations
MPC designation	3854
Alternative names	1983 EA
Orbital characteristics[1][2]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	11943 days (32.70 yr)
Aphelion	2.1458640 AU (321.01669 Gm)
Perihelion	1.6390166 AU (245.19339 Gm)
Semi-major axis	1.8924403 AU (283.10504 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.1339137
Orbital period	2.60 yr (950.89 d)
Mean anomaly	279.35619°
Mean motion	0° 22^m 42.929^s / day
Inclination	24.210458°
Longitude of ascending node	8.4082143°
Argument of perihelion	87.543276°
Earth MOID	0.787845 AU (117.8599 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	3.06143 AU (457.983 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.840
Physical characteristics
Rotation period	3.3398 h (0.13916 d)
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.1

3854 George (1983 EA) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on March 13, 1983 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar. It belongs to the Hungaria family of asteroids, which is the clump of asteroids in the asteroid belt closest to the Sun, and is the main object of a subfamily within the Hungaria asteroids.^[3]

It was named for George Estel Shoemaker, the father of co-discoverer Eugene Shoemaker.^[4]

References

1. "3854 George (1983 EA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
2. AstDys Retrieved 2011-09-01
3. Vinogradova, T.; Shor, V. (July 2014), "Asteroid families in the Cybele and Hungaria groups", in Muinonen, K.; Penttilä, A.; Granvik, M.; Virkki, A.; Fedorets, G.; Wilkman, O.; Kohout, T., Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2014, p. 567, Bibcode:2014acm..conf..567V.
4. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2012), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (6th ed.), Springer, p. 306, ISBN 9783642297182.

External links

• 3854 George at the JPL Small-Body Database

• Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters