Named for the native North Americans who originally settled in the subarctic region that is now Northwestern Canada and central Alaska. The Athabascan hunter-gatherers comprise a diverse group whose influence spread, about a thousand years ago, as far as the southwestern United States. They are the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache peoples.
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid
Reference: MPC 18644
Name:
Athabasca
Number:
3307
Designation:
1981 DE1
Disc. Date:
1981-02-28
Discoverer:
Bus, S.J.
Disc. Place:
Siding Spring