21751 Jennytaylor

Minor Planet
name=21751 Jennytaylor
discoverer=LINEAR
discovery_date=September 9, 1999
designations=mp|1990 DT|2 mp|1999 RT|176
category=Main belt
epoch=March 06, 2006 (JD 2453800.5)
semimajor=355.580 Gm (2.377 AU)
perihelion=305.371 Gm (2.041 AU)
aphelion=405.789 Gm (2.713 AU)
eccentricity=0.141
period=1338.494 d (3.66 a)
inclination=1.529°
asc_node=253.356°
arg_peri=238.359°
mean_anomaly=149.352°
speed=19.22 km/s
dimensions=3-6 km
mass=2.8-23e|13 kg
density=2.0? g/cm³
gravity=0.0008-0.0017 m/s²
escape_velocity=0.0016-0.0032 km/s
rotation=? d
spectral_class=?
abs_mag=15.1
albedo=0.10?
temperature=~181 K
Minor planet (21751) Jennytaylor was named in honor of Jennifer Taylor who placed second in the Environmental Science Category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. Her research focused on identifying the levels and potential sources of prescription antibiotic contamination in the Tennessee River in the Shoals, Alabama, area. This research was a continuation of her previous work presented at ISEF 2004 in which she detected multidrug resistant pathogens in that area of the Tennessee River.

This minor planet was discovered September 9, 1999, by the LINEAR program of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

External links

* [http://www.sciserv.org/isef/results/grnd2005.asp ISEF 2005 Grand Awards]