Discovery date 7 September 1962 Minor planet category main-belt Orbital period 1,914 days Orbits Sun Discovery site Goethe Link Observatory Discoverer Indiana Asteroid Program | MPC designation 1767 Lampland Observation arc 64.48 yr (23553 days) Discovered 7 September 1962 Named after Carl Otto Lampland Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program) Alternative names 1962 RJ · 1941 SP
1967 SC | ||
1767 Lampland, provisional designation 1962 RJ, is a main-belt asteroid which was discovered on September 7, 1962, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory in the U.S. state of Indiana.
It was named in honor of American astronomer Carl Lampland (1873–1951), a graduate of Indiana University, best known for his radiometric measurements of planetary temperatures.
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