Discovery date 13 March 1983 Observation arc 11943 days (32.70 yr) Orbits Sun Discovery site Palomar Observatory MPC designation 3854 | Alternative names 1983 EA Discovered 13 March 1983 Discoverer Carolyn S. Shoemaker Asteroid group Mars-crosser asteroid | |
Discovered by C.S. and E.M. Shoemaker Aphelion 2.1458640 AU (321.01669 Gm) Perihelion 1.6390166 AU (245.19339 Gm) Similar 3671 Dionysus, Sun, 5381 Sekhmet, 3554 Amun, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 | ||
3854 George (1983 EA) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on March 13, 1983 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar. It belongs to the Hungaria family of asteroids, which is the clump of asteroids in the asteroid belt closest to the Sun, and is the main object of a subfamily within the Hungaria asteroids.
It was named for George Estel Shoemaker, the father of co-discoverer Eugene Shoemaker.
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