8373 Stephengould (1992 AB) is an outer main-belt binary asteroid [ 5] Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory .[ 1] Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould . The asteroid has a very high inclination, having the second highest inclination of any of the first 10,000 discovered asteroids in the asteroid belt, after 2938 Hopi .
Stephengould is one of few strongly unstable asteroids located near the 2:1 mean motion resonance with the gas giant Jupiter , that corresponds to one of the prominent Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.[ 3]
The asteroid has a moon orbiting it, discovered in 2010 with an orbital period of 1 day, 10 hours, and 9 minutes.[ 5]
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Lightcurve plot of 8373 Stephengould , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2004)Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy , Cambridge University Press (2011)Asteroids with Satellites , Robert Johnston, johnstonsarchive.netAsteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) , query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine )Dictionary of Minor Planet Names , Google booksAsteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul BehrendDiscovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)–(5000) – Minor Planet Center8373 Stephengould at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
8373 Stephengould at the JPL Small-Body Database
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