(1952) Hesburgh
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Asteroid (1952) Hesburgh |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1127 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1392 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6794 AU - 3.5459 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.2335 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.49 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.86 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 35.55 km (± 1.4) |
| Albedo | 0.1041 |
| Rotation period | 47.7 h |
| Absolute brightness | 10.32 mag |
| Spectral class | CD |
| history | |
| Explorer | Goethe Link Observatory |
| Date of discovery | May 3, 1951 |
| Another name | 1951 JC , 1936 ND, 1939 AB, 1940 GQ, 1954 XC, 1974 KQ |
| 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. | |
(1952) Hesburgh is an asteroid of the main belt , which on May 3, 1951 by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory ( IAU code 760) in Brooklyn in the State of Indiana was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the American priest Theodore Hesburgh (1917-2015) and long-time President of the University of Notre Dame .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hesburgh: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1952) Hesburgh in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1952) Hesburgh in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).