84882 Table Mountain
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | James Whitney Young |
| Discovery site | Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California |
| Discovery date | 1 February 2003 |
| Designations | |
| 84882 | |
| 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) |
| 2.6356196 AU (394.28308 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2935975 |
| 4.28 yr (1562.9 d) | |
| 95.791691° | |
| 0.23034564°/day | |
| Inclination | 13.855386° |
| 20.554863° | |
| 349.00636° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.862221 AU (128.9864 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.04904 AU (306.532 Gm) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 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
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 84882 Table Mountain
- 84882 Table Mountain at the JPL Small-Body Database
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