7166 Kennedy

Infobox Planet
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name = 7166 Kennedy
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discovery_ref = [ [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs005001.html Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets 5001-10000] ]
discoverer = Edward L. G. Bowell
discovered = 10 October, 1985
designations = yes
mp_name = 7166 Kennedy
alt_names = mp|1985 TR|; mp|1976 JA|10; mp|1991 HC|5; mp|1992 OZ|8
mp_category = Main Belt
orbit_ref = * [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7166 Orbital elements, physical paramaters and ephemeris] , JPL Small-Body Database. Accessed September 29 2007.]
epoch = 27 October, 2007 (JD 2454400.5)
aphelion = 2.7562229 AU
perihelion = 2.1032685 AU
semimajor = 2.4297457 AU
eccentricity = 0.1343668
period = 1383.3741256 d
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inclination = 3.70871°
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abs_magnitude = 14.1

7166 Kennedy is an asteroid which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 10 October, 1985. Initially designated 1985 TR, it was named on 8 August 1998 in memory of Malcolm Kennedy (1944-1997), Secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow [ [http://www.astronomicalsocietyofglasgow.org.uk/asteroids.htm Asteroids] , Astronomical Society of Glasgow Website. Accessed September 29 2007.] , who died in a road accident in Hungary, 18 November 1997, on a mercy mission carrying aid to eastern Europe. Born and raised in New Zealand, Kennedy became a civil engineer in Scotland. He was an energetic member of the Free Church in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow. As secretary of the ASG, he ensured that meetings ran smoothly, enlivening them with wordplay and puns.

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* [http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourtel?elements=7166+Kennedy+54400+2.4297457+0.13436680+3.70871+64.17352+14.14308+248.0397400+14.10+0.15+MPO47620&aim=10&z=1&edump=-xe Find 7166 Kennedy in the night sky]