(52270) Noamchomsky

Asteroid (52270) Noamchomsky
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Vesta family
Major semi-axis	2.4328  AU
eccentricity	0.0880
Perihelion - aphelion	2.2188 AU - 2.6468 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	5.4468 °
Length of the ascending node	270.5022 °
Argument of the periapsis	212.8959 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	March 28, 2018
Sidereal period	3.79 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.5 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	February 13, 1988
Another name	1988 CH 5 , 1997 PK 4
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.

(52270) Noamchomsky is an asteroid of the main inner belt . It was discovered on February 13, 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).

The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt. The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (52270) Noamchomsky are almost identical to those of another six asteroid: (9136) Lalande , (90863) 1996 QR ₁ , (142339) 2002 RX ₂₀₁ , (144967) 2005 EX ₉₂ , (181 663 ) 2008 AW ₂ and 2015 RV ₂₂₁ .

(52270) Noamchomsky was named after the American linguist Noam Chomsky on March 12, 2017 .

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• (52270) Noamchomsky in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (52270) Noamchomsky 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 of (52270) Noamchomsky according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)