(8250) Cornell
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Asteroid (8250) Cornell |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Klumpkea family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1257 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2087 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4735 AU - 3.7779 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.0407 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 335.7846 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 343.7208 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.84 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 9 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1980 |
| Another name | 1980 RP , 1991 PG 13 |
| 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. | |
(8250) Cornell is a asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 September 1980 by the US 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 on 28 July 1999 at the concurrent conference "Asteroids, Comets, Meteors" after 1865 in Ithaca in upstate New York , founded Cornell University named that the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico operates.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Cornell: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Cornell in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8250) Cornell in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).