Stephengould
Discovery[1]
Discovered by
Discovery sitePalomar
Discovery date1 January 1992
Designations
(8373) Stephengould
Named after
Stephen Jay Gould
1992 AB
Orbital characteristics[4][2]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc8844 days (24.21 yr)
Aphelion5.09996 AU (762.943 Gm)
Perihelion1.45970 AU (218.368 Gm)
3.27983 AU (490.656 Gm)
Eccentricity0.554947
5.94 yr (2169.6 d)
358.004°
0° 9m 57.352s / day
Inclination40.7923°
88.8722°
55.5019°
Known satellites1
Jupiter MOID1.4741 AU (220.52 Gm)
TJupiter2.587
Physical characteristics
4.435 h (0.1848 d)
14.0

    8373 Stephengould (1992 AB) is an outer main-belt binary asteroid[5] discovered on 1 January 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.[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.

    Stephengould is one of few strongly unstable asteroids located near the 2:1 mean motion resonance with the gas giant Jupiter, that corresponds to one of the prominent Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.[3]

    The asteroid has a moon orbiting it, discovered in 2010 with an orbital period of 1 day, 10 hours, and 9 minutes.[5]

    See also

    References

    1. 1 2 "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (5001)–(10000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
    2. 1 2 "8373 Stephengould (1992 AB)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
    3. 1 2 Roig, F.; Nesvorný, D.; Ferraz-Mello, S. (September 2002). "Asteroids in the 2 : 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution [ Erratum: 2002MNRAS.336.1391R ]". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 335 (2): 417–431. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.335..417R. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05635.x. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
    4. "(8373) Stephengould". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
    5. 1 2 Johnston, Robert. "(8373) Stephengould". johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 29 May 2015.


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