--Orbital and physical data--
(Seethis page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, seethis link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
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--(4666) Dietz --discovery and notes:
Primary discovered1986 May 04from Palomar Observatory, California, USAby C. S. Shoemaker.Alternate designation(s):1986 JA1.Permanent number assigned 1990 Dec 02.
Named 1991 Jun 27 for Robert S. Dietz [MPC018461].
Second component discovered2015 Sep 02 by J. Oey, P. Pravec, K. Hornoch, D. Pray, V. Benishek, R. Montaigut, A. Leroy, and J. Vilagiusinglightcurve observations from Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic; Blue Mountains Observatory, Leura, New South Wales, Australia; Sugarloaf Mountain Observatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA; Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, Serbia; OPERA Observatory, France; Perth Observatory; Modra Observatory; JBL Observatory, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.Announced2015 Oct.
Third component discovered2015 Sep 02 by J. Oey, P. Pravec, K. Hornoch, D. Pray, V. Benishek, R. Montaigut, A. Leroy, and J. Vilagiusinglightcurve observations from Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic; Blue Mountains Observatory, Leura, New South Wales, Australia; Sugarloaf Mountain Observatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA; Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, Serbia; OPERA Observatory, France; Perth Observatory; Modra Observatory; JBL Observatory, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.Announced2018 Jul 20 [O18a].
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