- 9261 Peggythomson
Infobox Planet
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name = Peggythomson
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discoverer =Indiana Asteroid Program
discovery_site =Goethe Link Observatory
discovered =October 8 ,1953
designations = yes
mp_name = 9261
alt_names = 1953 TD1, 1991 SE5, 1993 FD3, 1996 AW3
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epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.6610800
perihelion = 1.9140532
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.1632798
period = 1263.7438728
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inclination = 4.54009
asc_node = 196.23668
mean_anomaly = 273.27591
arg_peri = 193.63381
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abs_magnitude = 14.19261 Peggythomson (1953 TD1) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered onOctober 8 ,1953 by theIndiana Asteroid Program atGoethe Link Observatory ,Brooklyn, Indiana . The name honors Peggy Y. Thomson who was responsible for a major gift to Indiana University from a charitable trust that allowed theDaniel Kirkwood professorship to be fully endowed as a chair of astronomy.External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9261+Peggythomson JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 9261 Peggythomson]
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