(16035) Sasandford
Asteroid (16035) Sasandford |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.7850 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0919 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5290 AU - 3.0409 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.5373 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.65 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.84 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 23.18 km (± 2.2) |
Albedo | 0.0329 |
Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | LONEOS |
Date of discovery | March 24, 1999 |
Another name | 1999 FX 32 , 1986 PM 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. |
(16035) Sasandford is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 24 March 1999 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search project at the Lowell Observatory was discovered.
The celestial body was named after the American astronomer and meteorite researcher Scott Alan Sandford (* 1957), who studied the relationships between interstellar chemistry and the materials found in meteorites at NASA's Ames Research Center .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Sasandford: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16035) Sasandford in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (16035) Sasandford in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).