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Asteroid (33434) Scottmanley = 1999 FU = 1989 GA6
🕑 Added 2019-05-24 17:32:12 +0000 UTCIt's official, I now have a minor planet named after me - asteroid 33434 was renamed 'Scottmanley'.
It's a small main belt asteroid, 2.74 AU out with an eccentricity of 0.064 and period of 5.02 years. It was discovered in 1999 by Alain Maury, but later analysis found the object was previously seen in 1989 and all the way back to 1954. So the orbit is pretty well constrained at this point due to the long observational arc. Based on its absolute magnitude of 13.5 it's probably less than 10km across.
https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=33434
