8373 Stephengould

Stephengould
Discovery[1]
Discovered by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Discovery site Palomar
Discovery date 1 January 1992
Designations
MPC designation 8373
Named after
 Stephen Jay Gould
1992 AB
Orbital characteristics[2][3]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 8844 days (24.21 yr)
Aphelion 5.09996 AU (762.943 Gm)
Perihelion 1.45970 AU (218.368 Gm)
3.27983 AU (490.656 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.554947
5.94 yr (2169.6 d)
358.004°
0° 9m 57.352s / day
Inclination 40.7923°
88.8722°
55.5019°
Earth MOID 0.643589 AU (96.2795 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.4741 AU (220.52 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 2.587
Physical characteristics
4.435 h (0.1848 d)
14.0

    8373 Stephengould (1992 AB) is an outer main-belt binary asteroid[4] discovered on January 1, 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar.[1] The asteroid was named after the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The asteroid has a very high inclination, having the second highest inclination of any of the first 10,000 discovered asteroids in the asteroid belt, after 2938 Hopi.

    This is a member of the Griqua family of asteroids that share similar orbital elements.[5] It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.[6]

    The asteroid has a moon orbiting it, discovered in 2010 with an orbital period of 1 day, 10 hours, and 9 minutes.[4]

    References

    1. 1 2 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (5001)-(10000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
    2. ↑ "(8373) Stephengould". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
    3. ↑ "8373 Stephengould (1992 AB)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
    4. 1 2 Johnston, Robert. "(8373) Stephengould". johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
    5. ↑ Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin, eds. (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 164–165.
    6. ↑ Roig, F.; Nesvorný, D.; Ferraz-Mello, S. (September 2002). "Asteroids in the 2 : 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 335 (2): 417–431. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.335..417R. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05635.x.

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