(2070) Humason

Asteroid (2070) Humason
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Orbit type	Inner main belt
Major semi-axis	2,250 AU
eccentricity	0.155
Perihelion - aphelion	1,900 AU - 2,599 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	2.756 °
Length of the ascending node	1.265 °
Argument of the periapsis	349.913 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	March 20, 2015
Sidereal period	3.38 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.3 mag
history
Explorer	Goethe Link Observatory
Date of discovery	October 14, 1964
Another name	1964 TQ
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(2070) Humason ( 1964 TQ ) is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 October 1964 at the Goethe Link Observatory as part of the Indiana Asteroid Program was discovered.

designation

The asteroid was named after the US astronomer Milton Lasell Humason (1891–1972), who demonstrated the larger redshifts in the groundbreaking Hubble-Humason project . He discovered comet C / 1961 R1 (Humason) in 1961 . The name was proposed by the American astronomer Frank K. Edmondson (1912-2008).