(19398) Creedence
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Asteroid (19398) Creedence |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3158 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2618 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7095 AU - 2.9222 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8808 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.52 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
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| Explorer |
Piero Sicoli Pierangelo Ghezzi |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 EM 8 , 1975 TQ 6 , 1999 KG 11 |
| 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. | |
(19398) Creedence is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 2, 1998 by the Italian astronomers Piero Sicoli and Pierangelo Ghezzi at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano .
The asteroid was named on August 6, 2009 after the Californian rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (also CCR or Creedence ).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Creedence: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (19398) Creedence in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (19398) Creedence in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).