(2511) Patterson
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Asteroid (2511) Patterson |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2984 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1040 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0594 AU - 2.5375 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.0462 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 85.5492 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 190.4714 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.48 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.64 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.849 ± 0.174 km |
| Albedo | 0.287 |
| Rotation period | 4.144 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII V |
| history | |
| Explorer | Carolyn Shoemaker |
| Date of discovery | June 11, 1980 |
| Another name | 1980 LM , 1934 CK, 1965 AD, 1974 VE 2 , 1979 BS |
| 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. | |
(2511) Patterson is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the June 11, 1980 American US astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory ( observatory code 675) about 80 kilometers northeast of San Diego in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the US geochemist Clair Cameron Patterson (1922–1995), who determined the age of the earth using the uranium-lead dating method .
See also
Web links
- (2511) Patterson: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA (English)
- (2511) Patterson in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2511) Patterson in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).