(2796) Crown
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Asteroid (2796) Crown |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6436 ± 0.0001 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1113 ± 0.00004 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3494 ± 0.00012 AU - 2.9378 ± 0.0001 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.0009 ± 0.0388 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 158.4264 ± 0.1924 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 55.6501 ± 0.2592 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 19th May 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 4.3 a ± 0.0106 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 8.561 ± 0.125 km |
| Albedo | 0.290 ± 0.089 |
| Rotation period | ≈23.04 ± 6.912 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
 Edward LG Bowell
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| Date of discovery | March 13, 1980 |
| Another name | 1980 EC ; 1976 HL |
| 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. | |
(2796) Kron ( 1980 EC ; 1976 HL ) is an approximately nine kilometers large asteroid of the main middle belt that was discovered on March 13, 1980 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Lowell Observatory , Anderson Mesa Station ( Anderson Mesa ) in the Was discovered near Flagstaff , Arizona ( IAU code 688). It belongs to the Eunomia family , a group of asteroids named after (15) Eunomia .
designation
(2796) Kron was named after the American astronomer Gerald Kron (1913–2012) who worked at the Lick Observatory (IAU code 662) and director of the United States Naval Observatory ( Flagstaff Station , IAU code 689) from 1965 to 1973. As a pioneer of astronomical photometry , he published a large amount of high-precision photometric measurements of stars , galaxy clusters and galaxies .
See also
Web links
- (2796) Kron in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (2796) Kron in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 September 15, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1980 EC. Discovered 1980 Mar. 13 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa. "
| predecessor | asteroid | successor |
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| (2795) Lepage | numbering | (2797) Teucer |