(52337) Compton
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Asteroid (52337) Compton |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3882 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2283 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8430 AU - 2.9334 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3388 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 54.7387 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 298.9377 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 6th July 2018 |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.27 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen , Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 RS , 2000 YM 92 |
| 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. | |
(52337) Compton is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on September 2, 1992 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The orbit of the asteroid was secured in 2003 so that numbering could be assigned. (52337) Compton was named at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen after the American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton , who discovered the so-called Compton effect in 1922 . The designation of (52337) Compton became generally valid by publication on August 6 of the same year. A lunar crater in the northern lunar hemisphere was named after Arthur Holly Compton and his older brother Karl Taylor Compton in 1970 : lunar crater Compton .
Web links
- (52337) Compton in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (52337) Compton 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 (52337) Compton according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small planets discovered on Tautenburger Platten on the website of Freimut Börngen
- ↑ The lunar crater Compton in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)