- 3927 Feliciaplatt
Infobox Planet
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name = Feliciaplatt
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discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer =Shoemaker, C.
discovery_site = Palomar
discovered =May 05 ,1981
designations = yes
mp_name = 3927
alt_names = 1981 JA2
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orbit_ref =
epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.4903396
perihelion = 1.8970268
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.1352321
period = 1186.7501326
avg_speed =
inclination = 1.95011
asc_node = 255.62847
mean_anomaly = 67.61259
arg_peri = 25.80761
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abs_magnitude = 14.03927 Feliciaplatt (1981 JA2) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered onMay 05 ,1981 byShoemaker, C. at Palomar.Quotation on the derivation of it's name by John Platt:
As part of a class taught by Gene Shoemaker at Caltech, I was lucky to discover two asteroids: (3237) Victorplatt (named after my father) and (3259) Brownlee. I named 3237, but I was too slow in naming 3259, so Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker named it after a fellow asteroid researcher, Don Brownlee.They very generously allowed me to name an asteroid they discovered in return: (3927) Feliciaplatt (named after my mother).
External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3927+Feliciaplatt JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 3927 Feliciaplatt]
* [http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR6/getjpeg.aspx?ra=113.86387973&dec=19.47113034&scale=0.05&width=512&height=512&opt=L&query=&Label=on SDSS survey image taken on 25JAN2003, 1.51au from Earth /Fermats Brother]
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