(3673) Levy
Asteroid (3673) Levy |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3456 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1849 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9119 AU - 2.7792 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.0900 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.59 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.45 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 2.69 h |
Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
history | |
Explorer | E. Bowell |
Date of discovery | August 22, 1985 |
Another name | 1985 QS, 1969 ER, 1978 SW 5 , 1978 WN |
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. |
(3673) Levy is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 August 1985 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
In December 2007, a team of astronomers supervised by the Czech astronomer Petr Pravec discovered that (3673) Levy had a moon. This satellite, named S / 2007 (3673) 1, has a diameter of around 3 km and orbits Levy in 21.67 hours at a distance of 20 km.
The asteroid was named after the Canadian astronomer David H. Levy , who discovered the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Levy: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3673) Levy in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3673) Levy in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Johnston's Archives: (3673) Levy