Murchie

(1990 QG4 )
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NOW @ 25 AQU 31
FOUND @ 13 PIS 47
 
Inclination: 1.013
Eccentricity: 0.146
Period: 5.673 years
AU 3.181
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

23.8.1990 10:32 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named in honor of Scott Murchie (b. 1959), who has a diverse interest in planetary problems ranging from icy satellites, martian rocks and moons, to age dating of terrestrial rocks. On the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Instrument Scientist for the Multispectral Imager and the Near-Infrared Spectrograph. His hard work and dedication to the NEAR project, starting long before launch, has been key to maximizing mission scientific return. When NEAR enters orbit around (433) Eros, Murchie's groundwork in calibration, sequence planning and spectroscopy will contribute greatly to mission success. Name proposed by J. Veverka and citation written by M. Robinson.


Discovered on 23-8-1990 in Palomar by Holt, H. E.

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