(2537) Gilmore
Asteroid (2537) Gilmore |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
Major semi-axis | 2.6559 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1720 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1990 AU - 3.1128 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.9374 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 334.9956 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 18.8941 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.33 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.26 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 4.2302 h |
Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth |
Date of discovery | 4th September 1951 |
Another name | 1951 RL , 1977 QP 2 |
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. |
(2537) Gilmore is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 4, 1951 by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the State Observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( IAU code 024).
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
(2537) Gilmore was named after the New Zealand astronomer Alan C. Gilmore , an employee of the Mt John University Observatory operated by the University of Canterbury at Christchurch and chair of Commission 6 of the International Astronomical Union .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (2537) Gilmore in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Gilmore: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2537) Gilmore in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2537) Gilmore in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).