Discovery date 1 September 1986 Eccentricity 0.1917439 Discovered 1 September 1986 Argument of perihelion 297.1529° Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Observation arc 12198 days (33.40 yr) Orbital period 4.38 yr (1600.2 d) Inclination 1.737256° Mean anomaly 291.5272° Discovery site Oak Ridge Observatory | |
Aphelion 3.1908568 AU (477.34538 Gm) Semi-major axis 2.677468 AU (400.5435 Gm) | ||
6696 Eubanks (1986 RC1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1986 by Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard.
It is named after T. Marshall Eubanks of the US Naval Observatory, in honor of his contributions to astronomy and geodesy, among them his development of the navy radio interferometry network and his analysis of data relating to Earth's rotation and polar motion. The name was proposed by I. I. Shapiro.
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