Jimmiller

(1991 NK1 )

NOW @ 21 SAG 52

Inclination: 10.296

Eccentricity: 0.051

Period: 5.634 years

AU 3.166

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

12.7.1991 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1

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Named in honor of James K. Miller (b. 1939), celestial mechanics and orbital dynamics expert at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Miller played a key role in navigating the NEAR spacecraft and in determining the mass of (433) Eros from perturbations of the NEAR spacecraft's trajectory. Name and citation provided by J. Veverka and D. K. Yeomans.

Discovered on 12-7-1991 in Palomar by Holt, H. E.
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