3700 Geowilliams
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3700 Geowilliams is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 23, 1984 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar
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Named in honor of George E. Williams, exploration geologist with Broken
Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd. at Adelaide, South Australia. Williams
discovered the Lake Acraman impact structure of South Australia, the largest
such feature found so far on the Australian continent. He also discovered
rhythmically layered sedimentary deposits of Precambrian age that exhibit
periods closely matching those of the modern solar cycle.
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
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discovered on October 23, 1984 by Shoemaker, C. and Shoemaker, E. at Palomar
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 George E. Williams, exploration geologist with Broken
Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd. at Adelaide, South Australia. Williams
discovered the Lake Acraman impact structure of South Australia, the largest
such feature found so far on the Australian continent. He also discovered
rhythmically layered sedimentary deposits of Precambrian age that exhibit
periods closely matching those of the modern solar cycle.