8373 Stephengould
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | January 1, 1992 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 8373 |
|
Named after
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Stephen Jay Gould |
| 1992 AB | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch November 30, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 5.1004 |
| Perihelion | 1.4662 |
| 3.28332 | |
| Eccentricity | 0.553433 |
| 2173.05 | |
| 286.98 | |
| Inclination | 40.77 |
| 88.879 | |
| 55.533 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 13.8 | |
8373 Stephengould (1992 AB) is an outer main-belt binary asteroid[3] 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.[4] It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.[5]
The asteroid has a moon orbiting it, discovered in 2010 with an orbital period of 1 day, 10 hours, and 9 minutes.[3]
References
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