1940 Whipple ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 2 February 1975, by the Harvard College Observatory at its George R. Agassiz Station near

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, Massachusetts, in the United States, and named after astronomer Fred Whipple.

Classification and orbit

''Whipple'' orbits the Sun in the

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External links

Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
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– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend

– Minor Planet Center * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Whipple 001940 001940 Named minor planets 19750202