(3009) Coventry
Asteroid (3009) Coventry |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.1966 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2042 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7481 AU - 2.6451 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.5578 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 20.09 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 6.08 km (± 0.6) |
Albedo | 0.1096 |
Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | NS Tschernych |
Date of discovery | 22nd September 1973 |
Another name | 1973 SM 2 , 1979 JB, 1982 FV 3 |
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(3009) Coventry is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 22, 1973 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named after the English industrial city of Coventry , which was bombed several times and badly destroyed by the German Air Force during World War II .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Coventry: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3009) Coventry in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3009) Coventry in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).