(5202) Charleseliot
Asteroid (5202) Charleseliot |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3997 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1661 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0012 AU - 2.7982 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.6169 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 262.6456 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 160.6350 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 10.19 ± 0.6 km |
Albedo | 0.0893 |
Rotation period | 183 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Antonin Mrkos |
Date of discovery | 5th December 1983 |
Another name | 1983 XX , 1979 SF 12 , 1990 QX |
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. |
(5202) Charleseliot is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 5, 1983 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť observatory ( observatory code 046) near the town of Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia .
The asteroid was named on July 2, 2015 after the American professor of chemistry , author and editor Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), who served as President of Harvard University for 40 years .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Charleseliot: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Charleseliot in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5202) Charleseliot in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).