(10914) Tucker
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Asteroid (10914) Tucker |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1796 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1353 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7494 AU - 3.6097 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5485 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 7.0112 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 207.4405 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.67 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.740 ± 0.060 km |
| Albedo | 0.074 ± 0.005 |
| Rotation period | 8.07 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | P. Comba |
| Date of discovery | December 31, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 YQ 14 , 1993 FC 38 , 1997 CN 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. | |
(10914) Tucker is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 31 December 1997 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba its private Prescott Observatory ( observatory code in 684) Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on November 23, 1999 after the American astronomer Roy Tucker (* 1951), who is the owner and main observer of the Goodricke Pigott Observatory in southern Arizona.
The celestial body belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (10914) Tucker in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Tucker: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10914) Tucker in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (10914) Tucker in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).