(2628) Copal
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Asteroid (2628) Copal |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9077 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1516 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4670 AU - 3.3483 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3347 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.96 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.47 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Eleanor Helin scolded John Bus |
| Date of discovery | June 25, 1979 |
| Another name | 1979 MS 8 , 1974 OO 1 , 1975 WB 1 |
| 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. | |
(2628) Kopal is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the June 25, 1979 American US astronomer Eleanor Helin and scolding John Bus at Siding Spring Observatory ( IAU code 413) was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Czech astronomer Zdeněk Kopal (1914–1993). After the Second World War, Kopal headed the Astronomy Department at the University of Manchester and in the 1960s advised NASA as an external expert in the run-up to the Apollo program .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kopal: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2628) Copal in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2628) Copal in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).