84882 Table Mountain

For other uses, see Table Mountain (disambiguation).

Table Mountain
Discovery
Discovered by	James Whitney Young
Discovery site	Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
Discovery date	1 February 2003
Designations
MPC designation	84882
Alternative names	2003 CN16, 1997 UB9
Orbital characteristics^[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	6707 days (18.36 yr)
Aphelion	3.4094309 AU (510.04360 Gm)
Perihelion	1.8618082 AU (278.52254 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.6356196 AU (394.28308 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.2935975
Orbital period	4.28 yr (1562.9 d)
Mean anomaly	95.791691°
Mean motion	0.23034564°/day
Inclination	13.855386°
Longitude of ascending node	20.554863°
Argument of perihelion	349.00636°
Earth MOID	0.862221 AU (128.9864 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	2.04904 AU (306.532 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.7

84882 Table Mountain (2003 CN16) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 1, 2003 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.

Named for 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

Minor Planet Circulars, 2005 April 7.

Notes

↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 84882 Table Mountain (2003 CN16)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 March 2016.

External links

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