4252 Godwin is a main belt 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...

 with an orbital period

Orbital period

The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...

 of 1577.5081690 days (4.32 years).

The asteroid was discovered on September 11, 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. Named after Richard Godwin (b. 1955), a board member of the Space Frontier Foundation, who served as executive director of The Watch, a support organization for NEO detection. His brother Robert Godwin

Robert Godwin

Robert Godwin is an author who has written about rock music and spaceflight. Early in his career he was a rock music impresario who managed a venue in Burlington, Ontario and founded Griffin Music.-Personal information:...

 (b. 1958) is a space expert and space-history researcher. Together they founded Apogee Books

Apogee Books

Apogee Books is an imprint of Canadian publishing house Collector's Guide Publishing. The Apogee imprint began with "Apollo 8 The NASA Mission Reports" in November 1998 at the request of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon. The first publication by Apogee was printed to celebrate the 30th...

, a space book company and write extensively on space.