(3718) Dunbar
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Asteroid (3718) Dunbar |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6356 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0523 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4977 AU - 2.7736 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5588 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.28 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.34 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Eleanor Helin scolded John Bus |
| Date of discovery | November 7, 1978 |
| Another name | 1978 VS 10 , 1969 TN 1 , 1976 GL 2 , 1976 JL, 1982 VQ 7 , 1986 SW |
| 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. | |
(3718) Dunbar is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the November 7, 1978 American US astronomer Eleanor Helin and scolding John bus at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the US physicist and planetologist Roy Scott Dunbar , who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1983 and discovered several asteroids, including three near-Earth objects .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Dunbar: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3718) Dunbar in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3718) Dunbar in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).