(13214) Chirikov
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Asteroid (13214) Chirikov |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4749 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1246 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1664 AU - 2.7833 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3077 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 168.4380 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 52.6879 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.89 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 3, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 JJ 16 , 1977 EJ 3 , 1990 QC 13 |
| 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. | |
(13214) Chirikov is an asteroid of the main belt , which on May 3, 1997 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 30, 2010 after the Russian seaman and Siberia explorer Alexei Ilyich Tschirikow (1703-1748) who discovered the coast of Alaska and parts of the Aleutian Islands in 1746 during the Second Kamchatka Expedition under the leadership of Vitus Bering a map for Russian discoveries in the Pacific.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Chirikov: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13214) Chirikov in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (13214) Chirikov in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).