(11762) Bird
Asteroid (11762) bird |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.9039 AU |
eccentricity | 0.02481 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8319 AU - 2.9760 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.29775 ° |
Sidereal period | 4 a 350 d |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 6044 PL, 1998 GB 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. |
(11762) Vogel is an asteroid in the main belt . He was discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld in photographs taken by Tom Gehrels in the Palomar Observatory .
The asteroid is named after Hermann Carl Vogel , a German astrophysicist .