3700 Geowilliams
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | 23 October 1984 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 3700 |
| 1984 UL2 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 15429 days (42.24 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.9603820 AU (442.86684 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8703846 AU (279.80555 Gm) |
| 2.415383 AU (361.3362 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2256365 |
| 3.75 yr (1371.1 d) | |
| 82.856623° | |
| 0° 15m 45.208s / day | |
| Inclination | 12.12004° |
| 289.18707° | |
| 153.19792° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.893943 AU (133.7320 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.29276 AU (342.992 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.452 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 14.387 h (0.5995 d) | |
| 12.5 | |
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3700 Geowilliams (1984 UL2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1984 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar.
Named in honor of George E. Williams, exploration geologist with Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd. at Adelaide, South Australia. Williams discovered the Lake Acraman impact structure of South Australia, the largest such feature found so far on the Australian continent. He also discovered rhythmically layered sedimentary deposits of Precambrian age that exhibit periods closely matching those of the modern solar cycle.
References
- ↑ "3700 Geowilliams (1984 UL2)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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