(4612) Greenstein
Asteroid (4612) Greenstein |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.5566 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1385 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2025 AU - 2.9107 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.6139 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 105.4855 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.09 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.63 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eleanor Helin |
Date of discovery | May 2, 1989 |
Another name | 1989 JG, 1972 BU, 1979 YA 8 , 1980 BD 4 , 1983 XT 1 , 1989 JJ |
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. |
(4612) Greenstein is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 May 1989 by the American US astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The celestial body was named on August 28, 1996 after the American astronomer Jesse Leonard Greenstein (1909-2002), who founded the astronomy training program at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Greenstein: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4612) Greenstein in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4612) Greenstein in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).