(5405) Neverland
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Asteroid (5405) Neverland |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6647 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2354 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0374 AU - 3.2920 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.4060 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 15.0407 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 243.7307 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.35 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.23 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.1807 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Y. Kushida O. Muramatsu |
| Date of discovery | April 11, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 GY , 1969 EU 1 , 1979 SE 10 |
| 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. | |
(5405) Neverland is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 April 1991 by the Japanese astronomer Yoshio Kushida and Osamu Muramatsu on Yatsugatake South Base Observatory ( observatory code 896) in Hokuto in the Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the fictional island of Neverland, the main setting of James Matthew Barrie's children 's stories about Peter Pan .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Neverland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Neverland in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5405) Neverland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).