(7740) Petit
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Asteroid (7740) Petit |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3700 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1148 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0978 AU - 2.6421 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.2194 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 9.6788 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 290.8528 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.34 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.121 ± 0.097 km |
| Albedo | 0.388 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | September 6, 1983 |
| Another name | 1983 RR 2 , 1976 SV 4 , 1979 OT 13 , 1987 SA 26 , 1987 SS 15 , 1994 RD 1 |
| 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. | |
(7740) Petit is an asteroid of the main belt , the September 6, 1983 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the French astronomer Jean-Marc Petit (* 1961).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Petit: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Petit in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7740) Petit in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).