9767 Midsomer Norton () is an
outer main-belt asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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discovered on March 10, 1992, by
Duncan Steel
Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discoverer of minor planets, discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working a ...
at
Siding Spring.
It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2:1
mean motion resonance
In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers. Most commonly, this relationsh ...
with
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
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See also
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List of minor planets
The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order. With the exception of comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including asteroids, distant objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists ...
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Discoveries by Duncan Steel
Named minor planets
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