(3566) Levitan
Asteroid (3566) Levitan |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3610 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1265 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0624 AU - 2.6597 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2729 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 289.2935 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 194.3218 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.63 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.38 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
Spectral class | SMASSII B |
history | |
Explorer | Lyudmyla Shuravlowa |
Date of discovery | December 24, 1979 |
Another name | 1979 YA 9 , 1951 CO 1 , 1962 CO, 1964 WM, 1973 GF 1 , 1975 XT 1 , 1978 PX 1 , 1978 QD 1 , 1980 BM 6 , 1980 BO, 1980 CP, 1984 HQ 2 , 1986 WT 1 |
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. |
(3566) Levitan is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 24, 1979 by the Ukrainian - Soviet astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa at the branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named after the Russian landscape painter Isaak Ilyich Lewitan (1860-1900), who was a member of the Peredwischniki and is considered one of the most important Russian painters of realism .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Levitan: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3566) Levitan in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3566) Levitan in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).