84882 Table Mountain

84882 Table Mountain

Infobox Planet
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discoverer = James Whitney Young
discovery_site = Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
discovered = February 1, 2003
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mp_name = 84882
alt_names = 2003 CN16, 1997 UB9
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epoch = November 30, 2008
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perihelion = 1.8568692
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84882 Table Mountain (2003 CN16) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 1, 2003 by James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.

Named for the discoverer's workplace Table Mountain Observatory, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924.

References

* "Minor Planet Circulars", 2005 April 07.

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=84882+Table+Mountain JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 84882 Table Mountain]


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