(14094) Garneau

Asteroid (14094) Garneau
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Koronis family
Major semi-axis	2.9156  AU
eccentricity	0.0481
Perihelion - aphelion	2.7754 AU - 3.0559 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	3.1384 °
Length of the ascending node	97.6898 °
Argument of the periapsis	254.5897 °
Sidereal period	4.98 a
Mean orbital velocity	17.44 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	14.5 mag
history
Explorer	Spacewatch
Date of discovery	July 28, 1997
Another name	1997 OJ 1 , 1996 KF 5
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.

(14094) Garneau is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 28 July 1997 by astronomers at the Space Watch -project at Kitt Peak National Observatory ( IAU code in 695) Arizona was discovered.

The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.

(14094) Garneau was named on June 14, 2003 after the Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau (* 1949), who was the first Canadian to fly into space and who took part in a total of three missions with the space shuttle between 1984 and 2000 ( STS-41-G , STS-77 , STS-97 ). Since 2006 he has been active in politics for the Liberal Party of Canada , for which he was able to move into the Canadian lower house in 2008.

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• Asteroid Garneau: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• (14094) Garneau in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
• (14094) Garneau in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (14094) Garneau in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).