3640 Gostin
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| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | October 11, 1985 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 3640 |
| 1985 TR3 | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 2.4161245 |
| Perihelion | 2.0338975 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0858933 |
| 1212.2624795 | |
| 235.25979 | |
| Inclination | 4.31005 |
| 289.32284 | |
| 155.54572 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 12.9 | |
3640 Gostin (1985 TR3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1985 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar.
It is named after geologist Victor A. Gostin[1] of the University of Adelaide, who in the 1980s discovered the ejecta layer from the Acraman bolide impact at a distance of 300 km from the impact site, within Ediacaran sedimentary rocks of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, which enabled the impact to be dated at ~580 Ma.[2]
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References
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003): Dictionary of minor planet names, 5th Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN 3-540-00238-3 . Google Books preview, 21 September 2010
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