(1940) Whipple
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Asteroid (1940) Whipple |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0606 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0637 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8656 AU - 3.2556 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5587 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 263.7988 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 179.8227 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.35 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.02 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 37.481 km (± 0.250) |
| Albedo | 0.060 (± 0.009) |
| Rotation period | 6,953 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Harvard College Observatory |
| Date of discovery | 2nd February 1975 |
| Another name | 1975 CA , 1932 AD, 1950 LH, 1962 SH, 1970 EC 1 , 1971 KD 1 , 1971 KN, A916 AD |
| 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. | |
(1940) Whipple is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 February 1975 by astronomers of the Harvard College Observatory ( IAU code 801) in Cambridge US state in Massachusetts was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the American astronomer Fred Whipple (1906–2004), who focused on comet research and is therefore also known as “Dr. Comet ”.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Whipple: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1940) Whipple in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (1940) Whipple in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).