2134 Dennispalm Explained

Minorplanet:yes
2134 Dennispalm
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
Discovery Ref: 
Discovered:24 December 1976
Mpc Name:(2134) Dennispalm
Alt Names:1976 YB
Named After:C. Dennis Palm
Orbit Ref: 
Epoch:4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty:0
Observation Arc:61.16 yr (22,337 days)
Perihelion:1.9594 AU
Semimajor:2.6353 AU
Eccentricity:0.2565
Period:4.28 yr (1,563 days)
Mean Motion: / day
Inclination:31.367°
Asc Node:11.606°
Arg Peri:120.22°
Rotation:4.114abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Spectral Type:Tholen = DSU: 
B–V = 0.936
Abs Magnitude:13.1

2134 Dennispalm, provisional designation is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 24, 1976, by Charles T. Kowal at Palomar Observatory.

Photometric observations made in 2003 at the Carbuncle Hill Observatory near Providence, Rhode Island, give a synodic rotation period of 4.114 ± 0.002 hours. The light curve shows a brightness variation of 0.37 ± 0.05 in magnitude.

It is named in honor of C. Dennis Palm (1945–1974), who worked as a night assistant at Caltech's 48" Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain in the 1960s and later at Caltech's 60" reflecting telescope, also on Palomar. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 .

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