(4716) Urey
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Asteroid (4716) Urey |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1803 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1353 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7499 AU - 3.6107 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.1387 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 20.1673 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 100.9548 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.67 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.70 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 15 km |
| Rotation period | 5.9260 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Scolded John Bus |
| Date of discovery | October 30, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 UL 5 , 1969 EA 1 , 1978 RN 16 |
| 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. | |
(4716) Urey is an asteroid located in the Main Belt . It was discovered on October 30, 1989 by the American astronomer Schelte John Bus at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ( IAU code 807) east of La Serena in Chile .
The asteroid was named on October 13, 2000 after the American chemist Harold C. Urey (1893–1981), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Urey: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4716) Urey in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (4716) Urey in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).