(11450) Shearer
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Asteroid (11450) Shearer |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2413 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1022 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0122 AU - 2.4705 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.7121 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.36 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.89 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | C.-I. Lagerkvist |
| Date of discovery | 22nd August 1979 |
| Another name | 1979 QJ 1 , 1988 CC 1 |
| 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. | |
(11450) Shearer is an asteroid of the main belt , which on August 22 in 1979 by the Swedish astronomer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Andrew Shearer (* 1953), head of a working group for astrophysics and image processing at the National University of Ireland in Galway .