(27425) Bakker

Asteroid (27425) Bakker
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Vesta family
Major semi-axis	2.3129  AU
eccentricity	0.1071
Perihelion - aphelion	2.0652 AU - 2.5606 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	6.6785 °
Length of the ascending node	303.7626 °
Argument of the periapsis	94.3323 °
Sidereal period	3.52 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.0 mag
history
Explorer	Catalina Sky Survey
Date of discovery	March 1, 2000
Another name	2000 EP 198
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.

(27425) Bakker is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered on March 1, 2000 during the Catalina Sky Survey .

The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt. The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (27425) Bakker are almost identical to those of 14 other asteroids, one of which (55,867) 1,997 RX ₂ is the largest, if one of the absolute brightness emanates.

(27425) Bakker was named on October 8, 2014 after the American paleontologist Robert Bakker (* 1945), who was jointly responsible for a paradigm shift in dinosaur research in the 1960s .

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• (27425) Bakker in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (27425) Bakker in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
• Discovery Circumstances of (27425) Bakker according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)