(7470) Jabberwock

Asteroid (7470) Jabberwock
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Vesta family
Major semi-axis	2.2890  AU
eccentricity	0.0665
Perihelion - aphelion	2.1367 AU - 2.4412 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	7.7834 °
Length of the ascending node	58.6925 °
Argument of the periapsis	158.9342 °
Sidereal period	3.46 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.68 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	14.1 mag
history
Explorer	Takeshi Urata
Date of discovery	May 2, 1991
Another name	1991 YES , 1984 GT, 1984 HQ
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.

(7470) Jabberwock is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 May 1991 by Japanese astronomers Takeshi Urata at Nihondaira Observatory ( IAU code 385) near the town of Shimizu in Shizuoka Prefecture was discovered.

The asteroid is part of the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.

(7470) Jabberwock was named after the mystical creature Jabberwock , the main subject of the classic nonsense poem Jabberwocky from the story Alice Behind the Mirrors by British writer Lewis Carroll .

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• Asteroid Jabberwock: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• Asteroid Jabberwock in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• (7470) Jabberwock in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)