(5035) Swift

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Asteroid
(5035) Swift
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eunomia family
Major semi-axis 2.6095  AU
eccentricity 0.1562
Perihelion - aphelion 2.2018 AU - 3.0173 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 13.5143 °
Length of the ascending node 51.9897 °
Argument of the periapsis 52.0659 °
Sidereal period 4.22 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.43 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter approx. 9 km
Rotation period 9.4752 h
Absolute brightness 12.2 mag
history
Explorer Seiji Ueda , Hiroshi Kaneda
Date of discovery October 18, 1991
Another name 1991 UX , 1949 WL, 1978 SX, 1978 TR 9 , 1980 BN 1 , 1988 AD 2 , 1990 JE 1
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.

(5035) Swift is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 October 1991 by the Japanese astronomer Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Observatory of Kushiro ( IAU code was discovered 399).

The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.

(5035) Swift is named after the American astronomer and comet discoverer Lewis A. Swift .

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Individual evidence

  1. The family membership of (5035) Swift in the AstDyS-2 database (English)