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  • Aerospace Engineering professor honored with asteroid namesake

    Aug 23, 2023 11:30 am by Debra Levy LarsonExcellence
    map shows Asteroid Eggl orbits the sun at a distance of roughly 2.52 astronomical units or 234 million miles, or 2.52 times the distance between the Earth and the sun.

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    • map shows Asteroid Eggl orbits the sun at a distance of roughly 2.52 astronomical units or 234 million miles, or 2.52 times the distance between the Earth and the sun.

    An asteroid named '28751 Eggl' - as in Professor Siegfried Eggl - can now be spotted on all international databases including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Horizons. 'It was a total surprise to me! I had no idea I was being nominated,' Eggl said.