(14024) Procol Harum
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Asteroid (14024) Procol Harum |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5557 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2641 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8807 AU - 3.2306 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4348 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 342.1499 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 45.2809 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.09 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.64 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.872 ± 1.147 km |
| Albedo | 0.089 |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Piero Sicoli , Pierangelo Ghezzi |
| Date of discovery | September 9, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 RZ , 1986 TW 12 , 1992 EW 35 |
| 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. | |
(14024) Procol Harum is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 9, 1994 by the Italian amateur astronomers Piero Sicoli and Pierangelo Ghezzi at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( observatory code 587) near the town of Sormano in the province of Como .
The asteroid was named on June 14, 2003 after the British rock band Procol Harum , founded in 1967 , whose song A Whiter Shade of Pale , released in the same year, became one of the formation's greatest successes.
See also
Web links
- (14024) Procol Harum: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA (English)
- (14024) Procol Harum in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14024) Procol Harum in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).