(5422) Hodgkin
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Asteroid (5422) Hodgkin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9729 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2401 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2590 AU - 3.6867 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.6115 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 32.9502 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 9.7470 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.13 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.27 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina |
| Date of discovery | 23rd December 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 YL 1 , 1956 XS, 1966 RK, 1976 RH 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. | |
(5422) Hodgkin is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina on December 23, 1982 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). There had been several sightings of the asteroid before: on December 4, 1956 (1956 XS) at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana , on September 15, 1966 (1966 RK) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on September 16, 1976 ( 1976 RH 10 ) at the Felix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina .
According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (5422) Hodgkin assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be trade a C asteroid .
The asteroid was on 1 September 1993 by Dorothy Hodgkin named, a British biochemist who for their analysis of the structure of vitamin B12 with X-rays the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded.
Web links
- (5422) Hodgkin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (5422) Hodgkin 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 (5422) Hodgkin according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (5422) Hodgkin on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
- ↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)