4320 Jarosewich
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4320 Jarosewich is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 1, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus
at Siding Spring Observatory
in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey
. The asteroid
is named after Eugene Jarosewich
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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 March 1, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus
Schelte J. Bus
Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF. He received his B.S. from Caltech in 1979, and was awarded his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.Bus...
at Siding Spring Observatory
Siding Spring Observatory
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University , incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National...
in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey
U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey
U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey, or U.K. Schmidt Telescope-Caltech asteroid survey, or UCAS is the joint astronomical survey performed in 1982...
. The 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...
is named after Eugene Jarosewich
Eugene Jarosewich
Eugene Jarosewich was a chemist in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution. Gene was known worldwide for his wet chemical analyses of meteorites...
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