
3532 Tracie
Solar System, Trojan (Astronomy), Near-Earth Object, Small Solar System Body
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3532 Tracie (1983 AS2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1983 by Gregory Ojakangas and Ken Herkenhoff at Palomar. The asteroid is named after Gregory Ojakangas' beloved wife, Tracie Lynn Rosberg Ojakangas. Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, ...
3532 Tracie (1983 AS2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1983 by Gregory Ojakangas and Ken Herkenhoff at Palomar. The asteroid is named after Gregory Ojakangas' beloved wife, Tracie Lynn Rosberg Ojakangas. Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.