(8580) Pinsky
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Asteroid (8580) Pinsky |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1125 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1401 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6765 AU - 3.5485 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.1382 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 108.6927 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.49 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.87 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | December 14, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 XZ 25 , 1979 YC 4 , 1986 AY 1 , 1990 WO 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. | |
(8580) Pinsky is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 December 1996 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( observatory code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on June 10, 1998 after the American writer , poet , literary scholar and literary critic Robert Pinsky (* 1940), who was the US Poet Laureate and poetic advisor to the Library of Congress between 1997 and 2000 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pinsky: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Pinsky in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8580) Pinsky in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).