(1776) Kuiper
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Asteroid (1776) Kuiper |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1038 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0133 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0625 AU - 3.1451 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.4926 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 176.6822 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 303.5032 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.467 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.91 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 35.96 ± 1.6 km |
| Albedo | 0.0544 |
| Absolute brightness | 11.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2520 PL , 1930 EB, 1931 KK, 1938 SU, 1952 DK 2 , 1963 FJ |
| 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. | |
(1776) Kuiper is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named after the Dutch-born US astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905–1973).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kuiper: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1776) Kuiper in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1776) Kuiper in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).