(7074) Muckea
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Asteroid (7074) Muckea |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2097 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1860 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7987 AU - 2.6207 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8778 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 61.1818 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 295.6001 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.28 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.03 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.134 ± 0.100 km |
| Albedo | 0.306 ± 0.045 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | NS Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | September 10, 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 RD 3 , 1987 WP 5 |
| 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. | |
(7074) Muckea is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 10, 1977 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named on January 24, 2000 after the Austrian astronomer Hermann Mucke (1935–2019), who headed the Vienna planetarium and the Urania observatory until his retirement in 2000 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Muckea: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Muckea in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7074) Muckea in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).