4838 Billmclaughlin
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4838 Billmclaughlin is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on July 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar
. It is named in honor of retired JPL space scientist William I. McLaughlin
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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 July 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin 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...
. It is named in honor of retired JPL space scientist William I. McLaughlin
William I. McLaughlin
William I. McLaughlin is a retired American space scientist.After being award his PhD in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968 , he worked at Bellcomm, Inc. in Washington D.C. on the Apollo lunar-landing program. In 1971 he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he...
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