- 16946 Farnham
Infobox Planet
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name = Farnham
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discoverer = The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS)
discovery_site = Lowell Observatory
discovered = April 25, 1998
designations = yes
mp_name = 16946
alt_names = 1998 HJ51
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epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.7268316
perihelion = 2.0420974
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eccentricity = 0.1435824
period = 1344.8836423
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inclination = 6.59506
asc_node = 103.35792
mean_anomaly = 135.65262
arg_peri = 252.13430
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abs_magnitude = 14.316946 Farnham (1998 HJ51) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered on Apr. 25, 1998 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS) at Lowell Observatory.Named for Tony Farnham.
Naming Citation: Tony L. Farnham (b. 1964), an astronomer at the University of Maryland, has studied the dynamics of cometary dust and determined comet rotation states. He has also contributed to the Deep Impact mission by improving the standardization of filter photometry.
External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=16946+Farnham JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 16946 Farnham]
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