Dunbar

(1978 VS10 )
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FOUND @ 5 VIR 22
 
Inclination: 3.553
Eccentricity: 0.053
Period: 4.278 years
AU 2.635
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

7.11.1978 06:29 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Roy Scott Dunbar, physicist and planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The discoverers wish to acknowledge his dedicated commitment and participation in the Palomar planet-crossing asteroid search, which included his own discovery of the Aten-type asteroid (3362) Khufu. His dissertation on the stability of Trojan-type librations in the Earth-Sun system led to an Earth-Trojan search program at Palomar. (M 12976) _ _.


Discovered on 7-11-1978 in Palomar by Helin, E. F., Bus, S. J.

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