2658 Gingerich
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2658 Gingerich is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 13, 1980 by Harvard College
at Agassiz Station. It rotates quickly, with a spin period of 2.9415 hours. Gingerich is also suspected to be a binary asteroid
, due to a decrease in the magnitude of its lightcurve observed on Nov. 20, 2005.
http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/mpb/MPB%2034-4.pdf
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on February 13, 1980 by Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
at Agassiz Station. It rotates quickly, with a spin period of 2.9415 hours. Gingerich is also suspected to be a binary asteroid
Binary asteroid
A binary asteroid is a system of two asteroids orbiting their common center of mass, in analogy with binary stars. 243 Ida was the first binary asteroid to be identified when the Galileo spacecraft did a flyby in 1993...
, due to a decrease in the magnitude of its lightcurve observed on Nov. 20, 2005.
http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/mpb/MPB%2034-4.pdf