(26993) Littlewood
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Asteroid (26993) Littlewood |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9757 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0810 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7346 AU - 3.2169 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2857 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 121.6354 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 295.1847 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.13 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.26 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.8859 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | 3rd December 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 XC 1 , 2000 JY 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. | |
(26993) Littlewood is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 3 December 1997 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code in 684) Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 28, 2002 after the English mathematician John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), who was a professor at Trinity College in Cambridge for most of his life and, together with Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematics until the 1950s coined.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Littlewood: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (26993) Littlewood in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (26993) Littlewood in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).