(7649) Bougainville
Asteroid (7649) Bougainville |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.5685 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0965 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3206 AU - 2.8164 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.8787 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 139.3892 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 280.2354 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.12 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.59 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 4.675 ± 0.268 km |
Albedo | 0.322 ± 0.072 |
Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | EW Elst |
Date of discovery | September 22, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 SV 5 , 1995 WU 34 |
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(7649) Bougainville is an asteroid of the main central belt that was discovered on September 22, 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 046) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
It was named on March 9, 2001 after the French officer, navigator and writer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), who was the first French to circumnavigate the world from 1766–1769 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bougainville: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bougainville in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7649) Bougainville in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).