3927 Feliciaplatt

Feliciaplatt

Discovery and designation
Discovered by	Shoemaker, C.
Discovery site	Palomar
Discovery date	May 5, 1981
Designations
MPC designation	3927
Alternate name(s)	1981 JA2
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Ap	2.4903396
Peri	1.8970268
Eccentricity	0.1352321
Orbital period	1186.7501326
Mean anomaly	67.61259
Inclination	1.95011
Longitude of ascending node	255.62847
Argument of peri	25.80761
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.0

3927 Feliciaplatt (1981 JA2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1981 by Shoemaker, C. at Palomar.

Origin of the name

As part of a class taught by Gene Shoemaker at Caltech, I was lucky to discover two asteroids: (3237) Victorplatt (named after my father) and (3259) Brownlee. I named 3237, but I was too slow in naming 3259, so Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker named it after a fellow asteroid researcher, Don Brownlee. They very generously allowed me to name an asteroid they discovered in return: (3927) Feliciaplatt (named after my mother).

—John Platt, ^{[citation needed]}

External links

• JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 3927 Feliciaplatt
• SDSS survey image taken on 25JAN2003, 1.51au from Earth /Fermats Brother