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2309 Mr. Spock (provisional designation: 1971 QX1) is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 16 1971 by James B. Gibson an astronomer specializing in comets asteroids and the Milky Way at the Yale-Columbia Station at El Leoncito Argentina. The asteroid is about 21 km in diameter.The asteroid’s name does not come directly from the character of Mr. Spock in Star Trek but rather indirectly from the discoverer’s male cat who was named after the science fiction character.

apoapsis (km)
4.90096e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.64981e+08
periapsis (km)
4.11135e+11
absolute magnitude
11.3
albedo
0.1177
discovery date
1971-08-16
discoverer
James_B._Gibson_(astronomer)
epoch
November 30 2008
former name
1971 QX1 1935 SN1 1948 EJ1 1956 TL 1974 CU 1977 SF3

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