(5035) Swift
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Asteroid (5035) Swift |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| 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 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Swift: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Swift in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5035) Swift in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (5035) Swift in the AstDyS-2 database (English)