Discovered by C. Shoemaker Alternative names 1981 JJ2 Discovered 5 May 1981 Discoverer Carolyn S. Shoemaker Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 5 May 1981 Observation arc 22634 days (61.97 yr) Orbits Sun Discovery site Palomar Observatory MPC designation 3689 | |
Aphelion 3.1209324 AU (466.88484 Gm) Perihelion 2.6370374 AU (394.49518 Gm) Similar Sun, 5381 Sekhmet, 3554 Amun, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, 129P/Shoemaker–Levy | ||
3689 Yeates (1981 JJ2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1981 by C. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.
Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the course of regional geologic mapping at the southern edge of the Great Sandy desert of Western Australia, Yeates led a team of geologists that discovered the Veevers crater. This site, discovered in 1975, is the fifteenth and latest recognized locality throughout the world where meteorites have been found associated with an impact crater.
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