10000 Myriostos
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| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | A.G. Wilson |
| Discovery date | 30 September 1951 |
| Designations | |
| 1951 SY, 1980 TS2[1] | |
| main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[1][2] | |
| Epoch 27 August 2011 (JD 2455800.5) | |
| Aphelion | 3.3725151 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.8029673 AU |
| 2.5877412 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.3032660 |
| 4.16 a (1520.476 d) | |
| 148.88980° | |
| Inclination | 20.61400° |
| 169.58681° | |
| 199.84912° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | ~3 km |
| 15.3 | |
10000 Myriostos is a main-belt asteroid discovered by A. G. Wilson on 30 September 1951 at the Palomar Observatory on Palomar Mountain, California.
It was initially provisionally designated as 1951 SY and later named "(10000) Myriostos" (Greek for "ten thousandth") to honor all astronomers who helped discover ten thousand such bodies.[3] This occurred after some debate as to whether Pluto should have been reclassified as a minor planet and given the number 10000, with strong resistance coming from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.[4][5]
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