(1766) Slipher
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Asteroid (1766) Slipher |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Lydia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2,750 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.085 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.516 AU - 2.985 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.222 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.56 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.96 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 24 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| Spectral class | C type |
| history | |
| Date of discovery | September 7, 1962 |
| Another name | 1962 RF, 1953 UR, 1980 RH 5 |
| 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. | |
(1766) Slipher is a main belt asteroid. He was born on September 7, 1962 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn (Indiana) within the Indiana Asteroid Program of the Indiana University discovered.
The asteroid was named in honor of the brothers Earl and Vesto Slipher , US astronomers.