(2664) Everhart

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Asteroid
(2664) Everhart
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.3805 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1818 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9478 ± 0.001 AU - 2.8131 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 3.2586 ± 0.0411 °
Length of the ascending node 167.6957 ± 0.0653 °
Argument of the periapsis 207.0904 ± 0.6585 °
Time of passage of the perihelion April 23, 2019
Sidereal period 3.37 a ± 0.069 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 11.141 ± 0.090 km
Albedo 0.038 ± 0.006
Absolute brightness 13.9 likes
history
Explorer Nazi stateNazi state Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
Date of discovery September 7, 1934
Another name 1934 RR ; 1967 RT; 1978 PQ 3
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(2664) Everhart ( 1934 RR ; 1967 RT ; 1978 PQ 3 ) is an approximately eleven-kilometer asteroid of the inner main belt that was discovered on September 7, 1934 by the German (then Nazi state ) astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the State Observatory in Heidelberg- Königstuhl was discovered on the western summit of the Königstuhl near Heidelberg ( IAU code 024).

designation

(2664) Everhart was named after Edgar Everhart (1920–1990), who from 1969 was in the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Denver and was director of the Chamberlain Observatory (IAU code 708). The naming was suggested by the American astronomer Brian Marsden .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 3, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1934 RR. Discovered 1934 Sept. 7 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2663) Miltiades numbering (2665) Schrutka