128065 Bartbenjamin

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discoverer = Bert L. Stevens
discovery_site = Desert Moon Observatory
discovered = July 19, 2003
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mp_name = 128065
alt_names = 2003 OK
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epoch = May 14, 2008
aphelion = 3.3903026
perihelion = 2.5870130
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period = 1887.1774054
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inclination = 7.79396
asc_node = 223.23688
mean_anomaly = 259.65246
arg_peri = 179.98621
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abs_magnitude = 15.1

128065 Bartbenjamin (2003 OK) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on July 19, 2003 by Bert L. Stevens at Desert Moon Observatory. It is probably between 1.9 and 2.6 kilometers (1.2 to 1.6 miles) in size, irregularly shaped, and made of carbon-based rock. It is named in honor of Bart Benjamin, Director of the Cernan Earth and Space Center of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois and former curator at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois.

External links

[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=128065+Bartbenjamin JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 128065 Bartbenjamin]