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    1620 Geographos (/dʒiːoʊˈɡræfɒs/; provisional designation 1951 RA) is a highly elongated, stony asteroid, near-Earth object and potentially hazardous...
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    scientific observations of both the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos. Observation of the asteroid was not made due to a malfunction in the...
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  • Albert George Wilson, he co-discovered the near-Earth Apollo asteroid 1620 Geographos in 1951, and he also discovered Planetary Nebula M2-9. He additionally...
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    for having an orbit that has the same period as Earth's. 1566 Icarus 1620 Geographos 1685 Toro 1862 Apollo 1863 Antinous 1864 Daedalus 1865 Cerberus 1866...
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    Hercules. The meteor stream is associated with three different asteroids: 1620 Geographos, 2062 Aten and 1978 CA. The Lambda Bootids, part of the Bootid-Coronae...
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    scientific observations of the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos. The Geographos observations were not made due to a malfunction in the spacecraft...
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    2 km APO 2.200 0.663 3.0 0.742 3.658 0.04626 — MPC · JPL · catalog 1620 Geographos 1951 675 A. G. Wilson R. Minkowski 15.60 2.5 km APO 1.245 0.335 13...
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    (87684) 2000 SY2 (88213) 2001 AF2 (90367) 2003 LC5 (90403) 2003 YE45 1620 Geographos 1865 Cerberus 2063 Bacchus 3361 Orpheus 3362 Khufu 3753 Cruithne 4034...
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    Bacchus 1977 Charles T. Kowal List 1866 Sisyphus 1972 Paul Wild List 1620 Geographos 1951 Albert George Wilson, Rudolph Minkowski List (29075) 1950 DA 1950...
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    2400 km; discovery of the first asteroid satellite Dactyl 1989-084B 1620 Geographos Clementine BMDO/ NASA 1994 flyby failure flyby cancelled due to equipment...
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    Ganymed 35 October 23, 1924 NEAR 1998 Target changed before launch 1620 Geographos 5.1×1.8 September 14, 1951 Clementine 1995 Mission failed before retargeting...
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  • needed] Apollo asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid, Mars-crosser asteroid 1620 Geographos 1.245 Apollo asteroid, Mars-crosser asteroid 3200 Phaethon 1.271 Apollo...
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  • and director of Kwasan Observatory MPC · 1619 1620 Geographos 1951 RA National Geographic Society MPC · 1620 1621 Druzhba 1926 TM Russian for friendship...
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  • 10289 Geoffperry 9193 Geoffreycopland 21714 Geoffreywoo 12896 Geoffroy 1620 Geographos 149160 Geojih 376 Geometria 7578 Georgböhm 3854 George 6400 Georgealexander...
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  • "Rotation acceleration of asteroids (10115) 1992 SK, (1685) Toro, and (1620) Geographos due to the YORP effect". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 657: A5. arXiv:2110...
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  • Ueta October 11, 1953 Kwasan T. Mitani FLO 9.0 km MPC · JPL 1620 Geographos 1951 RA Geographos September 14, 1951 Palomar A. G. Wilson, R. Minkowski APO...
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    Clementine mapped the Moon and travelled on towards the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos (though it did not achieve that final goal). Worden also instituted...
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  • Minor planets discovered: 5  1620 Geographos 14 September 1951 list [A] 1915 Quetzálcoatl 9 March 1953 list 1980 Tezcatlipoca 19 June 1950 list [B] 10000...
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  • kilometres (1,500 mi) at 16:51:59 UTC Clementine (DSPSE) 25 January 1994 1620 Geographos Flyby Spacecraft failure Attitude control failure; failed to leave...
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    Hudson, R. S.; Ostro, S. J. (August 1999), "Physical Model of Asteroid 1620 Geographos from Radar and Optical Data", Icarus, 140 (2): 369–378, Bibcode:1999Icar...
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    28.89 2019-08-25 JPL · CAD 2019 OU1 115 2.67 2019-08-28 JPL · CAD 1620 Geographos 2560 53.42 2019-08-31 JPL · CAD 2009 EH1 9 58.91+76.41 −58.43 2019-09-09...
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  • mass shedding from YORP. Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect 1620 Geographos 1862 Apollo 25143 Itokawa 54509 YORP (2000 PH5) 2017 DR109 ^ This is...
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    "Rotation acceleration of asteroids (10115) 1992 SK, (1685) Toro, and (1620) Geographos due to the YORP effect". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 657: A5. arXiv:2110...
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  • Asteroid close approaches 2018 XB4 2019 AS5 2016 AZ8 66391 Moshup 2019 OK 1620 Geographos 2006 QV89 2100 Ra-Shalom 2019 SU3 2019 TA7 2019 UN13 Exoplanets AD...
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    Ueta. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 128. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1620. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "LCDB Data for (1619) Ueta". Asteroid Lightcurve...
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  • Goldschmidt 1615 Bardwell 1616 Filipoff 1617 Alschmitt 1618 Dawn 1619 Ueta 1620 Geographos 1621 Druzhba 1622 Chacornac 1623 Vivian 1624 Rabe 1625 The NORC 1626...
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    to the YORP effect. Animation of 54509 YORP orbit from 1600 to 2500 1620 Geographos 1862 Apollo 25143 Itokawa Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets...
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    Richard G. (September 1976), "155 Scylla, 279 Thule, 944 Hidalgo, and 1620 Geographos: Four Challenges for Observation", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 4: 7...
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    Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddac (YORP) acceleration of asteroids 1620 Geographos, 1862 Apollo, 3103 Eger. He also discovered several binary asteroids...
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    on Earth, on the border between Nepal and China 1 km – diameter of 1620 Geographos 1 km – very approximate size of the smallest-known moons of Jupiter...
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