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10000 Myriostos 
Discovery and designationDiscovered by A.G. Wilson Discovery date September 30, 1951 DesignationsAlternate name(s) 1951 SY, 1980 TS2[1] Epoch August 27, 2011 (JD 2455800.5) Aphelion 3.3725151 AU Perihelion 1.8029673 AU Semi-major axis 2.5877412 AU Eccentricity 0.3032660 Orbital period 4.16 a (1520.476 d) Mean anomaly 148.88980° Inclination 20.61400° Longitude of ascending node 169.58681° Argument of perihelion 199.84912° Dimensions ~3 km Absolute magnitude (H) 15.3 10000 Myriostos is a main-belt asteroid discovered by A. G. Wilson on September 30, 1951 at the Palomar Observatory on Palomar Mountain, California.
Given the provisional designation 1951 SY, it was renamed "(10000) Myriostos" (Greek for "ten thousandth") to honor all astronomers who helped discover ten thousand such bodies.[3] This occurred after some debate as to whether Pluto should have been reclassified as a minor planet and given the number 10000, with strong resistance coming from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- ^ AstDys
- ^ MPC 34632 Minor Planet Center
- ^ Guy M Hurst (20 June 1999). "THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1420". http://www.theastronomer.org/tacirc/1999/e1420.txt.
- ^ D. Tholen (December 1999). "Asteroid News Notes". The Minor Planet Bulletin, Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 26: 34,35. Bibcode 1999MPBu...26...33T.
External links
- NASA JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 10000 Myriostos
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