(2752) Wu Chien-Shiung
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Asteroid (2752) Wu Chien-Shiung |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0250 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1056 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7057 AU - 3.3443 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.109 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5,261 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.13 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 17 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11,338 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Purple Mountain Observatory |
| Date of discovery | September 20, 1965 |
| Another name | 1965 SP, 1933 QW, 1960 VA |
| 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. | |
(2752) Wu Chien-Shiung is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 20 September 1965 at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Chien-Shiung Wu , a Chinese-American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project .