(1754) Cunningham
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Asteroid (1754) Cunningham |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | outer main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.9422 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1696 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.2736 AU - 4.6109 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.1517 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 162.8974 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 109.6169 ° |
| Sidereal period | 7.83 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 14.98 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 79.52 (± 1.7) km |
| Albedo | 0.0345 (± 0.002) |
| Rotation period | 7.7416 h |
| Absolute brightness | 9.77 likes |
| Spectral class | P |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eugène Delporte |
| Date of discovery | March 29, 1935 |
| Another name | 1935 FE , 1938 RE, 1943 GH, 1951 FB, 1952 HO 1 , 1952 KB 1 , 1954 UD 1 , 1962 TG, 1967 EE, 1968 KR, 1969 PJ, A904 JB |
| 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. | |
(1754) Cunningham is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on March 29, 1935 by the Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium ( IAU code 012) in Ukkel .
The asteroid was named after the American astronomer Leland E. Cunningham .
See also
Web links
- (1754) Cunningham in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (1754) Cunningham in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (1754) Cunningham that according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
- (1754) Cunningham in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).