5100 Pasachoff
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5100 Pasachoff is an asteroid
. It was named after Professor Jay Pasachoff
in 1993 by E. Bowell, the discoverer (1985 GW).
5100 Pasachoff = 1985 GW
Named in honor of Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial professor of
astronomy, director of the Hopkins Observatory and chair of the astronomy
department of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Pasachoff's
broad range of astronomical research has centered on the sun, and especially
on studies of solar eclipses. He is also well known for an extensive series
of college-level textbooks and popular-astronomy textbooks and articles.
Besides being an indefatigable public lecturer, Pasachoff has served as
chairperson of the astronomy section of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, as a committee member of the American Association of
Physics Teachers and on the Astrophysics Council of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
For 68109 Naomipasachoff
68109 Naomipasachoff = 2000 YH135
Discovered 2000 Dec. 17 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object
Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Naomi Pasachoff (b. 1947) has written scientific biographies of Marie
Curie, Alexander Graham Bell, Bohr, Newton, Einstein, Pauling, and others. She
has viewed more than 20 solar eclipses, and continues to work on bringing
science to the public.
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 named after Professor Jay Pasachoff
Jay Pasachoff
Jay Myron Pasachoff is an American astronomer. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of textbooks and tradebooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and other sciences.-Biography:...
in 1993 by E. Bowell, the discoverer (1985 GW).
Data
For 5100 Pasachoff- semimajor axis: 2.46973814 A.U.
- eccentricity: 0.1351385
- inclination: 7.73827 deg.
- period: 3.88 years
- longitude of ascending node: 101.87185 deg.
- argument of perihelion: 36.14564 deg.
- mean anomaly: 102.24392 deg. (2000.0; 8/1.0/93=JDT 2449200.5)
5100 Pasachoff = 1985 GW
Named in honor of Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial professor of
astronomy, director of the Hopkins Observatory and chair of the astronomy
department of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Pasachoff's
broad range of astronomical research has centered on the sun, and especially
on studies of solar eclipses. He is also well known for an extensive series
of college-level textbooks and popular-astronomy textbooks and articles.
Besides being an indefatigable public lecturer, Pasachoff has served as
chairperson of the astronomy section of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, as a committee member of the American Association of
Physics Teachers and on the Astrophysics Council of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
For 68109 Naomipasachoff
- semimajor axis: 2.4713607 A.U.
- eccentricity: 0.1013178
- inclination: 8.71913 deg.
- period: 3.88519 years
- longitude of ascending node: 119.17644 deg.
- argument of perihelion: 170.18571 deg.
- mean anomaly: 355.23766 deg.
68109 Naomipasachoff = 2000 YH135
Discovered 2000 Dec. 17 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object
Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Naomi Pasachoff (b. 1947) has written scientific biographies of Marie
Curie, Alexander Graham Bell, Bohr, Newton, Einstein, Pauling, and others. She
has viewed more than 20 solar eclipses, and continues to work on bringing
science to the public.