(2147) Kharadze
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Asteroid (2147) Kharadze |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.172 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.053 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.003 AU - 3.341 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.085 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 144.486 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 307.910 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | March 30, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 5.65 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 23.035 (± 0.125) km |
| Albedo | 0.038 (± 0.004) |
| Rotation period | 14.1147 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: Ch |
| history | |
| Explorer | Richard Martin West |
| Date of discovery | October 25, 1976 |
| Another name | 1976 US; 1966 CT |
| 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. | |
(2147) Kharadze ( 1976 US ; 1966 CT ) is an asteroid of the main outer belt belonging to the Veritas family and discovered on October 25, 1976 by Richard Martin West at the La Silla Observatory .
designation
The asteroid was named by the discoverer after Evgenij Kirillovich Kharadze (1907-2001). He was the founder of the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory , after which the asteroid (1390) Abastumani was named, and its director since 1932. From 1972 to 1978 he was Vice President and later President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and from 1976 to 1982 Vice President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Web links
- Asteroid Kharadze: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2147) Kharadze in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 174 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 7, 2016] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named by the discoverer in honor of Academician Evgenij Kirillovich Kharadze ”