(7061) Pieri
Asteroid (7061) Pieri |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
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 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pieri: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Pieri in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7061) Pieri in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (7061) Pieri on minorplanetcenter.net (English)