(51824) Mikeanderson
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Asteroid (51824) Mikeanderson |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0098 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1095 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6803 AU - 3.3393 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.7706 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 334.4152 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 357.8089 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.22 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.13 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Albedo | ? |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer | NEAT |
| Date of discovery | July 19, 2001 |
| Another name | 2001 OE 30 , 1997 UJ 24 |
| 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. | |
(51824) Mikeanderson is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on July 19, 2001 by the American astronomer Eleanor Helin , on recordings of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project, which were taken with the 120 cm Oschin-Schmidt- Telescope of the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 644) in California .
The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.
(51824) Mikeanderson was named on August 6, 2003 after the American astronaut Michael Philip Anderson , who was killed in the accident on the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. Asteroids were named after all members of the Columbia crew: after Rick Douglas Husband (51823) Rickhusband , after David McDowell Brown (51825) Davidbrown , after Kalpana Chawla (51826) Kalpanachawla , after Laurel Blair Salton Clark (51827) Laurelclark , after Ilan Ramon (51828) Ilanramon and after William Cameron McCool (51829) Williemccool .
See also
Web links
- (51824) Mikeanderson in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (51824) Mike Anderson in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (51824) Mikeanderson according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Asteroids dedicated to fallen Columbia astronauts . NASA press release from August 6, 2003
- ↑ The family affiliation of (51824) Mikeanderson in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family (PDF, English)
- ^ Orbits of Asteroids named after Space Shuttle Columbia Crew . Jet Propulsion Laboratory press release from August 10, 2003