Alternative names 1936 UB, 1975 WZ1 Discovered 17 October 1936 Orbits Sun MPC designation 3568 | Discovery date 17 October 1936 Observation arc 29000 days (79.40 yr) Discoverer Marguerite Laugier Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Aphelion 3.8981359 AU (583.15283 Gm) Perihelion 2.3884723 AU (357.31037 Gm) | ||
3568 ASCII is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Marguerite Laugier on October 17, 1936.
It was named (long after its discovery) in honor of the ASCII character encoding system that was used by most computers. The name was proposed by Syuichi Nakano, who re-discovered this asteroid during his stay at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; a stay which was partially funded by articles he wrote for the principal Japanese microcomputer magazine, ASCII.
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