(6042) Cheshirecat
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Asteroid (6042) Cheshirecat |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Mars orbit cruiser |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0385 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.4571 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.6496 AU - 4.4275 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 15.8868 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 88.6068 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 286.3468 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.30 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.07 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 10.050 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Akira Natori , Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | November 23, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WW 2 |
| 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. | |
(6042) CHESHIRE is a mars ground-grazing asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 November 1990 by the Japanese astronomer Akira Natori and Takeshi Urata at the JCPM Yakiimo station ( IAU code 885) in Shimizu in Shizuoka Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid was named on February 9, 1999 after the character of the Cheshire Cat from the children's book Alice in Wonderland by the British writer Lewis Carroll .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Cheshirecat: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Cheshirecat in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6042) Cheshirecat in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).