(2917) Sawyer Hogg

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Asteroid
(2917) Sawyer Hogg
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt
Major semi-axis 2.7953 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1126 ± 0.0005
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4805 ± 0.0014 AU - 3.1101 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 12.8185 ± 0.0486 °
Length of the ascending node 348.6765 ± 0.1881 °
Argument of the periapsis 39.6143 ± 0.0261 °
Time of passage of the perihelion 18th August 2018
Sidereal period 4.67 a ± 0.1232 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 9.553 ± 0.117 km
Albedo 0.404 ± 0.026
Absolute brightness 11.9 likes
Spectral class SMASSII: S.
history
Explorer United StatesUnited States Edward LG Bowell
Date of discovery 2nd September 1980
Another name 1980 RR
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(2917) Sawyer Hogg ( 1980 RR ) is an approximately ten kilometers large asteroid of the main middle belt that was discovered on September 2, 1980 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Lowell Observatory , Anderson Mesa Station ( Anderson Mesa ) near Flagstaff , Arizona ( IAU code 688) was discovered.

designation

(2917) Sawyer Hogg was named after the Canadian astronomer Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993), who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto and who was known for her research on globular clusters . She was president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada , the Canadian Astronomical Society, and the American Association of Variable Star Observers . For nearly 30 years she wrote a weekly astronomy column for the Toronto Star and directed a number of television programs for the Ontario Educational Television Authority . In 1976 she was promoted to Companions of the Order of Canada and received the Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 22, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1980 RR. Discovered 1980 Sept. 2 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2916) Voronveliya numbering (2918) Salazar