(2246) Bowell

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( 2246 ) Bowell is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered by the U.S. astronomer Edward LG Bowell on 14 December 1979 at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 095 ) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County, Arizona.

Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid there had been before: among other things, on June 10, 1942 ( under the provisional designation 1942 GP) on Iso - Heikkilä Observatory, University of Turku, and on 25 September 1976 ( 1976 SL6 ) and 23 September 1977 ( 1977 SM3 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj.

( 2246 ) Bowell is part of the Hilda group, that is, it moves in an orbital resonance of 3:2 with the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Namesake of this group is the asteroid (153 ) Hilda. ( 2246 ) Bowell has a mean diameter of 44.21 km ( ± 3.2 ). Its albedo of 0.0540 (± 0.009) is relatively dark. It belongs to the spectral class D, as individual studies of scolding John and Richard P. Binzel bus on 7 April 1997 at 240 cm Ritchey- Chretien - Hiltner telescope of the MDM Observatorys have found at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Asteroids of spectral type D are characterized among other things by a low albedo and a reddish electromagnetic spectrum.

The asteroid was named on 1 January 1981 on the proposal of the British astronomer Brian Marsden by Edward LG Bowell.