(17942) Whiterabbit
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Asteroid (17942) Whiterabbit |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3893 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1172 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1093 AU - 2.6693 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.5361 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 159.7536 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 81.8040 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.26 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.808 ± 0.111 km |
| Albedo | 0.218 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Yoshisada Shimizu Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | May 11, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 JG 6 , 1991 CZ 4 , 1996 RM 4 |
| 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. | |
(17942) White Rabbit is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 May 1999 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Nachi-Katsuura Observatory ( IAU code 905) in the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama was discovered.
The celestial body was named on March 9, 2001 after the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland , a children's book by the British writer Lewis Carroll first published in 1865 , which was continued by Alice behind the mirrors in 1871 and which together with him is one of the classics of world literature.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Whiterabbit: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17942) Whiterabbit in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (17942) Whiterabbit in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).