(27952) Atapuerca
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Asteroid (27952) Atapuerca |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.378 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.085 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.176 AU - 2.58 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.8 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 295.1 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 130.7 ° |
| Sidereal period | 1339 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Ángel López Jiménez and Rafael Pacheco |
| Date of discovery | August 11, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 PR 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. | |
(27952) Atapuerca is a major belt asteroid of the Vesta family . Atapuerca was discovered in 1997 by the astronomers Ángel López Jiménez and Rafael Pacheco at the Astronomical Observatory Mallorca . The asteroid was named after the Sierra de Atapuerca , a mountain range in the Spanish province of Burgos , where the oldest human fossils in Europe were discovered.
Individual evidence
- ↑ (27952) Atapuerca in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).