3689 Yeates
Encyclopedia
3689 Yeates is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on May 5, 1981 by C. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory
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Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of
Mineral Resources of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the course of
regional geologic mapping at the southern edge of the Great Sandy desert of
Western Australia, Yeates led a team of geologists that discovered the
Veevers crater
. This site, discovered in 1975, is the fifteenth
and latest recognized locality throughout the world where meteorites have been found associated
with an impact crater.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on May 5, 1981 by C. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, southeast of Pasadena's Mount Wilson Observatory, in the Palomar Mountain Range. At approximately elevation, it is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology...
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Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of
Mineral Resources of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the course of
regional geologic mapping at the southern edge of the Great Sandy desert of
Western Australia, Yeates led a team of geologists that discovered the
Veevers crater
Veevers crater
Veevers crater is an impact crater located on a flat desert plain between the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts in the center of the state of Western Australia, Australia. The site is very remote and difficult to visit...
. This site, discovered in 1975, is the fifteenth
and latest recognized locality throughout the world where meteorites have been found associated
with an impact crater.