(12032) Ivory
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Asteroid (12032) Ivory |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3722 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1837 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9363 AU - 2.7021 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7021 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 142.6204 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 291.6104 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.34 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | January 31, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 BP 5 , 1977 RZ 18 |
| 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. | |
(12032) Ivory is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 31 January 1997 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code in 684) Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 24, 2000 after the Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Ivory (1765–1842), who wrote numerous papers on problems of celestial mechanics and several contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ivory: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (12032) Ivory in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (12032) Ivory in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).