02-16-2014 astronomy anniversaries and new asteroids

2014 CJ14
Discoverer: Pan-STARRS 1- Haleakala observatory
Semimajor axis: 1.454-1.469 AU
Perihelion: 1.143-1.149 AU
Aphelion: 1.768-1.786 AU
Eccentricity: 0.214-0.218
Inclination: 10.957-11.189 degrees
Period: 1.757-1.783 Years
Absolute magnitude: 21.04
Diameter: ~200 meters

Today's Astronomy anniversaries:

• Discoveries:
• 1948 (66 years ago)- Miranda, a moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper.
• Events:
•  None
• Births:
• 1698 (316 years ago)- Pierre Bouguer, a French Hydrographer and Astronomer, who has a crater on Mars, the Moon, and an asteroid named after him, is born in Le Croisic, France.
• Deaths:
• 1531 (483 years ago)- Yohannes Stöffler, a German Astronomer, who taught Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Tübingen for a brief time, dies of the plague.

            Coming up later today:
Why isn't Pluto a planet any more? An introduction to discovery of the Kuiper belt and Pluto's demotion!