95939 Thagnesland

95939 Thagnesland

Infobox Planet
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discoverer = James Whitney Young
discovery_site = Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California
discovered = May 30, 2003
designations = yes
mp_name = 95939
alt_names = 2003 KL20
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orbit_ref =
epoch = November 30, 2008
aphelion = 2.8670169
perihelion = 2.3461747
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eccentricity = 0.0999085
period = 1537.1241747
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inclination = 4.78369
asc_node = 164.97995
mean_anomaly = 18.27627
arg_peri = 187.16072
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95939 Thagnesland (2003 KL20) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on May 30, 2003 by James Whitney Young at Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.

Named for the discoverer's maternal grandparents Thaddeus and Agnes Vreeland using a truncated version of both first names and the end of their surname.

References

* "Minor Planet Circulars", 2007 June 01.

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=95939+Thagnesland JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 95939 Thagnesland]


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