(4580) Child
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Asteroid (4580) Child |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6381 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1037 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3647 AU - 2.9116 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.8866 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 169.6471 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.29 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.33 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 4.1814 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eleanor Helin |
| Date of discovery | March 4th 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 EF, 1978 TW 6 , 1978 VG 14 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(4580) Child is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the March 4, 1989 American US astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code in 675) California was discovered.
The celestial body is named after the American amateur astronomer Jack B. Child .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Child: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4580) Child in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4580) Child in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).