Discovery date 1 April 1955 Minor planet category main-belt Discovered 1 April 1955 Orbits Sun | MPC designation 1852 Carpenter Observation arc 84.44 yr (30841 days) Absolute magnitude 11.3 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Alternative names 1955 GA · 1931 TT21937 WH · 1939 FK | ||
1852 Carpenter, provisional designation 1955 GA, is a main-belt asteroid which was discovered on 1 April 1955, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU every 5.24 years and measures about 23 kilometers in diameter.
The asteroid was named after American astronomer Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898–1963), second director of the Steward Observatory who researched spectroscopic binaries and interacting galaxies. He played a major role in enabling the construction of the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
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