(42522) Chuckberry
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Asteroid (42522) Chuckberry |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4272 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1441 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0775 AU - 2.7769 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1063 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 96.1493 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 75.0361 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | September 10, 2020 |
| Sidereal period | 3.78 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.02 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 8, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 CB 17 , 1998 HH 6 |
| 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. | |
(42522) Chuckberry is an asteroid of the main inner belt . It was discovered on February 8, 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ). The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (42522) Chuck Berry are almost identical to those of four other asteroids: (9157) 1983 RB 4 , (110375) 2001 SR 334 , (170975) 2005 CW 26 and (270311) 2001 WE 82 .
(42522) Chuckberry was named on October 5, 2017 after the American singer , guitarist , composer and rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry (1926-2017).
Web links
- (42522) Chuckberry in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (42522) Chuck Berry in the Small Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (42522) Chuck Berry that according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)