516 Amherstia [SEP] named after
516 Amherstia
Amherstia (minor planet designation: 516 Amherstia) was the 8th asteroid discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan, and was named after Amherst College, his alma mater. Amherstia is a large M-type asteroid, with an estimated diameter of 73 km. It follows an eccentric orbit between Jupiter and Mars, with an orbital period of 4.39 years.
In 1989, the asteroid was observed from the Collurania-Teramo Observatory, allowing a light curve to be produced that showed an estimated rotation period of 7.49 hours
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- Librarian Ernest Cushing Richardson 1880, noted librarian, theologian and scholar
- Historian, author, librarian Frederic Bancroft 1882, namesake of the Bancroft Prize
- Philosopher James Hayden Tufts 1884, co-founder of University of Chicago School of Pragmatism
- Psychologist Edmund B. Delabarre 1886, pioneer in shape perception, among other fields
- Astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan 1899, discovered 16 Asteroids (including 516 Amherstia), wrote standard two volume textbook
- Historian Preserved Smith 1901, historian of Protestant