A-type asteroids A-type asteroids 3352 McAuliffe is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981. It is named in memory of Christa McAuliffe, the civilian astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. The asteroids 3350 Scobee, 3351 Smith, 3353 Jarvis, 3354 McNair, 3355 Onizuka and 3356 Resnik commemorate the other crew members. ...more on Wikipedia about "3352 McAuliffe"
446 Aeternitas is a Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a A-type asteroid. ...more on Wikipedia about "446 Aeternitas"
5261 Eureka was discovered at Mt Palomar on June 20, 1990 and turned out to be the first known Mars Trojan asteroid. It trails Mars (at the L5 point) at a distance varying by only 0.3 AU during each revolution (with a secular trend superimposed, changing the distance from 1.5-1.8 AU around 1850 to 1.3-1.6 AU around 2400). Minimum distances from the Earth, Venus and Jupiter are 0.5, 0.8 and 3.5 AU, respectively. ...more on Wikipedia about "5261 Eureka"
A-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that have a strong, broad 1 µm olivine feature and a very reddish spectrum shortwards of 0.7 µm. They are thought to come from the completely differentiated mantle of an asteroid. ...more on Wikipedia about "A-type asteroid"
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