886 Washingtonia
Synodic rotation period | 9.001 h (0.3750 d) | |
| 0.0713±0.025 | ||
| 9.3 | ||
886 Washingtonia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 16 November 1917, from Washington, D.C., and is named after the 1st President of the United States, George Washington.
Discovery circumstances
Credit for the discovery of 886 Washingtonia has been given to George Peters of the
Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, eleven years later.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ "886 Washingtonia (1917 b)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ Murdin, Paul (2016), Rock Legends - The Asteroids and Their Discoverers, Springer, p. 84
External links
- Lightcurve plot of 886 Washingtonia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2003)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 886 Washingtonia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 886 Washingtonia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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