2007 McCuskey

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2007 McCuskey is an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named in honour of the American observatory director Sidney W. McCuskey.Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 33.79 ± 1.31 km and a geometric albedo of 0.07 ± 0.01. By comparison the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 35.26 ± 3.74 km and a geometric albedo of 0.03 ± 0.01.

apoapsis (km)

3.98061e+11

average speed (km/s)

69192.0

orbital period (μ)

1.16186e+08

periapsis (km)

3.15312e+11

absolute magnitude

11.8

albedo

0.07

discovery date

1963-09-22

discoverer

Indiana Asteroid Program

epoch

June 14 2006 (JD 2453900.5)

former name

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