7863 Turnbull
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7863 Turnbull is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on November 2, 1981 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named in honor of Margaret Turnbull
an American astronomer.
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 November 2, 1981 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named in honor of Margaret Turnbull
Margaret Turnbull
Margaret Carol Turnbull is an American astronomer. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004. Turnbull is an authority on "Habstars," solar twins and planetary habitability....
an American astronomer.