(7061) Pieri

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Asteroid
(7061) Pieri
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.1249  AU
eccentricity 0.2541
Perihelion - aphelion 2.3308 AU - 3.9189 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 18.9683 °
Length of the ascending node 137.5343 °
Argument of the periapsis 173.6904 °
Sidereal period 5.52 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.85 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.5 mag
history
Explorer EF Helin
Date of discovery August 15, 1991
Another name 1991 PE 1 , 1990 HH 3
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.

(7061) Pieri is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 August 1991 by the American astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 675). The asteroid had previously been sighted on April 29 and 30, 1990 under the provisional designation 1990 HH 3 at the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in Australia .

The celestial body was named on March 20, 2000 after David C. Pieri (* 1949), a long-time employee of the Earth and Space Sciences Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Observations by (7061) Pieri on minorplanetcenter.net (English)