3850 Peltier
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3850 Peltier is a Main belt
asteroid
. It was discovered on October 7, 1986 at Anderson Mesa by Ted Bowell who named it in honor of the American
astronomer
Leslie Peltier
.
Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family
asteroids, it actually has a V-type
spectrumhttp://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/tax.html, indicating a possible origin as a fragment ejected from 4 Vesta
by an impact. It is certainly not related to the bulk of the Flora family, and is an unrelated interloper.
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...
. It was discovered on October 7, 1986 at Anderson Mesa by Ted Bowell who named it in honor of the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
Leslie Peltier
Leslie Peltier
Leslie Copus Peltier was an American astronomer.He was born in Delphos, Ohio. An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars and member of the AAVSO...
.
Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family
Flora family
The Flora family of asteroids is a large grouping of S-type asteroids in the inner main belt, whose origin and properties are relatively poorly understood at present...
asteroids, it actually has a V-type
V-type asteroid
The spectra of the V-type asteroids or Vestoids are similar to that of 4 Vesta, by far the largest asteroid in this class ....
spectrumhttp://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/tax.html, indicating a possible origin as a fragment ejected from 4 Vesta
4 Vesta
Vesta, formally designated 4 Vesta, is one of the largest asteroids, with a mean diameter of about . It was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807, and is named after the Roman virgin goddess of home and hearth, Vesta....
by an impact. It is certainly not related to the bulk of the Flora family, and is an unrelated interloper.