(3300) McGlasson
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Asteroid (3300) McGlasson |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1584 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2085 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4998 AU - 3.8169 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 18.776 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5,613 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.76 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 28 km |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 10,257 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | H. E. Wood |
| Date of discovery | July 10, 1928 |
| Another name | 1928 NA, 1951 UB, 1969 XB |
| 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. | |
(3300) McGlasson is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10. July 1928 by the South African astronomer Harry Edwin Wood in Johannesburg was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Van McGlasson, the head of the computer department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . The name was suggested by Brian Marsden , who was in charge of identifying the asteroid.