Camarillo, California

Camarillo (/ˌkæməˈriːoʊ/ KAM-ə-REE-oh) is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California. The population was 65,201 at the 2010 census, up from 57,084 at the 2000 census. The Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101) is the city's primary thoroughfare. Camarillo is named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, two of the few Californios (pre-1848 California natives of Hispanic ancestry) to preserve the city's heritage after the arrival of Anglo settlers. The railroad coast route came through in 1898 and built a station here. Adolfo Camarillo eventually employed 700 workers growing mainly lima beans. Walnuts and citrus were also grown on the ranch. Adolfo bred Camarillo White Horses in the 1920s through the 1960s and was well known for riding them, dressed in colorful Spanish attire, in parades such as the Fiesta of Santa Barbara.

The city grew slowly prior to World War II but the war effort saw the construction of the Oxnard Army Air Field (later Oxnard Air Force Base in 1951, now Camarillo Airport) to the west of town. The community also grew as the new base along with nearby Naval Air Station Point Mugu and a Seabee base at Port Hueneme brought many workers and their families to the area. The grounds of Camarillo State Hospital, which opened in 1936 south of town, are now the campus of California State University, Channel Islands.

Camarillo station

Camarillo is a passenger rail station in the city of Camarillo, California. It is served by both Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to east Ventura. Amtrak's San Diegan trains (later renamed the Pacific Surfliner) began stopping in Camarillo at the end of June 1995. Nine Pacific Surfliner trains serve the station daily and six Metrolink trains serve the station each weekday. This limited Metrolink service runs only at peak hours in the peak direction of travel (i.e. three morning departures to Los Angeles and three evening arrivals from Los Angeles).

Of the 73 California stations served by Amtrak, Camarillo was the 41st-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 90 passengers daily.

Platforms and tracks

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External links

Media related to Camarillo (train station) at Wikimedia Commons

5653 Camarillo

5653 Camarillo, provisional designation 1992 WD₅, is a stony asteroid classified as near-Earth object and Amor asteroid, about 1.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Kenneth J. Lawrence at the U.S. Palomar Observatory on 21 November 1992.

The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.2–2.3 AU once every 2 years and 5 months (878 days). Its orbit shows a high eccentricity of 0.30 and an inclination of 7 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic. The near-Earth asteroid has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance, MOID, of 0.283 AU (42,000,000 km).

Between 1995 and 2015, several photometric light-curve analysis gave it a well-defined rotation period of 4.834 hours with a brightness amplitude in the range of 0.4–0.85 in magnitude. According to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has an albedo between 0.21 and 0.25 with a corresponding diameter of 1.53 to 1.57 kilometers.