(9342) Carygrant
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Asteroid (9342) Carygrant |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2872 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1734 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8905 AU - 2.6838 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4932 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 337.8694 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 24.4445 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.69 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 6, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 PJ 7 , 6382 PL |
| 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. | |
(9342) Carygrant is an asteroid of the main belt , which on August 6, 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named on November 20, 2002 after the British film actor Cary Grant (1904-1986), who became a US citizen in 1942 and directed four important film classics under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock , including 1955 Above the Rooftops of Nice with Grace Kelly .
See also
Web links
- (9342) Carygrant in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9342) Carygrant in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (9342) Carygrant according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)