(55737) Coquimbo
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Asteroid (55737) Coquimbo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3617 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1139 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0928 AU - 2.6306 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.6306 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 122.8200 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 354.5006 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | January 27, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 3.63 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.241 km (± 0.114) |
| Albedo | 0.266 (± 0.029) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 11, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 CQ 1 , 1999 BC 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. | |
(55737) Coquimbo is an asteroid located in the main inner belt . It was discovered on February 11, 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 3.241 km (± 0.114).
According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), (55737) Coquimbo in a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, subdividing all the asteroids examined into C, S and V types assigned to the S asteroids .
Mean distance from the Sun ( major semiaxis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of (55737) Coquimbo roughly correspond 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.
(55737) Coquimbo was named on May 29, 2018 after the Chilean port city of Coquimbo , which is about 200 km south of the La Silla Observatory.
Web links
- (55737) Coquimbo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (55737) Coquimbo 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 (55737) Coquimbo according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ 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)