10030 Philkeenan
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10030 Philkeenan is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on August 30, 1981 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa
Station of the Lowell Observatory
. It was named after Philip Childs Keenan
, an American astronomer.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on August 30, 1981 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa
Anderson Mesa
Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station, USA, was established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory. Anderson Mesa is now home to several large reflecting telescopes that are used for observing programs such as LONEOS...
Station of the Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965....
. It was named after Philip Childs Keenan
Philip Childs Keenan
Philip Childs Keenan was an American astronomer.Keenan was an American spectroscopist who collaborated with William Wilson Morgan and Edith Kellman to develop the MKK stellar spectral classification system between 1939 and 1943...
, an American astronomer.