3351 Smith

Tags: Planet.

33151 Smith (1980 RN1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7 1980 by Edward Bowell from the Lowell Observatory in Anderson Mesa at southwest from Flagstaff (Arizona). 3351 is named in honor of Michael J. Smith late pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The asteroids 3350 Scobee 3352 McAuliffe 3353 Jarvis 3354 McNair 3355 Onizuka and 3356 Resnik commemorate the other crew members.

apoapsis (km)

5.77138e+11

orbital period (μ)

1.67838e+08

periapsis (km)

3.34468e+11

absolute magnitude

13.1

discovery date

1980-09-07

discoverer

Edward L. G. Bowell

epoch

January 4 2010

former name

; 1959 TL; ; ;