(6007) Billevans
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Asteroid (6007) Billevans |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4088 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1941 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9413 AU - 2.8763 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.3696 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 3.9730 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 105.5933 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.74 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.19 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Seiji Ueda Hiroshi Kaneda |
| Date of discovery | January 28, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 BE 2 , 1975 BS 1 , 1977 RE 20 |
| 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. | |
(6007) Bill Evans is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 28 January 1990 by the Japanese astronomer Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Observatory Kushiro ( IAU code 399) in the sub-prefecture Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido was discovered.
The asteroid was named on December 15, 2005 after the American jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans (1929–1980), who was one of the most influential personalities in modern jazz and style-forming for an entire generation of musicians.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Billevans: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Billevans in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6007) Billevans in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).