(4960) Mayo
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Asteroid (4960) Mayo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0205 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0888 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7524 AU - 3.2886 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.939 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5,250 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.14 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ? km |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4657 PL, 1976 SD 6 , 1976 US 11 |
| 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. | |
(4960) Mayo is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid was named after the astrochemist Jerome Mayo Greenberg (1922-2001).