(2531) Cambridge
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Asteroid (2531) Cambridge |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0085 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0566 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8383 AU - 3.1787 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.0320 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 104.3587 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 32.3896 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.22 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.17 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 22.349 ± 0.196 km |
| Albedo | 0.166 |
| Rotation period | 12.20 h |
| Absolute brightness | 10.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | June 11, 1980 |
| Another name | 1980 LD , 1931 AP, 1942 EQ, 1952 BG, 1963 FK, 1963 HD, 1971 VY, 1974 KH, A916 FE |
| 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. | |
(2531) Cambridge is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 June 1980 by the US American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the two university cities of Cambridge in England and Cambridge in Massachusetts , which, along with the University of Cambridge and Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are home to world-renowned universities.
(2531) Cambridge belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have large semi-axes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (2531) Cambridge in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)
Web links
- (2531) Cambridge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA (English)
- (2531) Cambridge in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2531) Cambridge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).