(16740) Kipthorne
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Asteroid (16740) Kipthorne |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2893 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1458 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9555 AU - 2.6231 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.7036 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 222.3031 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 35.6542 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.014 ± 0.144 |
| Albedo | 0.256 ± 0.064 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 22, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 KT 8 , 1979> OH 9 , 1997> SH 34 , 1999> CC 72 |
| 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. | |
(16740) Kipthorne is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 May 1996 by the Belgian astronomer E. W. Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The celestial body was named on May 29, 2018 after the American astrophysicist Kip Thorne (* 1940), who is known for his extensive contributions on gravitation and relativistic astrophysics and in 2017, together with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kipthorne: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16740) Kipthorne in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16740) Kipthorne in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).