(8889) Mockturtle
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Asteroid (8889) Mockturtle |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0375 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1399 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6125 AU - 3.4624 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.9773 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 322.6511 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 60.4414 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.29 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.09 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 23.59 ± 3.6 km |
| Albedo | 0.0727 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Yoshisada Shimizu , Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | July 31, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 OC |
| 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. | |
(8889) Mock is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 31 July 1994 by the Japanese astronomer Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Nachi-Katsuura Observatory ( IAU code 905) in the Wakayama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 9, 2001 after the character of the Mock Turtle from the children's book Alice in Wonderland by the British writer Lewis Carroll .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mockturtle: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Mockturtle in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8889) Mockturtle in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).