5953 Shelton

5953 Shelton

Infobox Planet
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discovery_ref =
discoverer = C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker
discovery_site = Palomar
discovered = April 25, 1987
designations = yes
mp_name = 5953
alt_names = 1987 HS
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orbit_ref =
epoch = May 14, 2008
aphelion = 2.7070898
perihelion = 1.9296058
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.1676806
period = 1289.3365848
avg_speed =
inclination = 24.01283
asc_node = 137.81831
mean_anomaly = 275.56799
arg_peri = 163.37002
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physical_characteristics = yes
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abs_magnitude = 13.3

5953 Shelton (1987 HS) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on April 25, 1987 by husband and wife teams Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker at Palomar. It was named after Canadian astronomer Ian Shelton, discoverer of SN 1987A, the first supernova event observed since the invention of the telescope.

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5953+Shelton JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 5953 Shelton]


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