(64070) NEAT
Asteroid (64070) NEAT |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.463 AU |
eccentricity | 0.209 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.948 AU - 2.978 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.5 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 137.6 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 262.1 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.86 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | CW Juels , PR Holvorcem |
Date of discovery | September 24, 2001 |
Another name | 2001 SS 272 , 2000 KR 47 |
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. |
(64070) NEAT is an asteroid of the main belt , on 24 September 2001 by the amateur astronomer Charles W. Juel and Paulo R. Holvorcem at Fountain Hills Observatory ( observatory code 678) in Fountain Hills in the state of Arizona was discovered .
The asteroid was named in January 2005 in honor of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) asteroid search program, which detected near-Earth asteroids between 1995 and 2007.
See also
Web links
- (64070) NEAT: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA (English)
- (64070) NEAT in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (English)
- (64070) NEAT in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).