(29458) Pearson
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Asteroid (29458) Pearson |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4172 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2206 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8841 AU - 2.9503 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7321 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.76 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.16 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | September 30, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 SJ 11 |
| 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. | |
(29458) Pearson is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 30 September 1997 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the British mathematician and professor at University College London Karl Pearson (1857-1936), who contributed to the theory of statistics with his definition of the correlation coefficient (Pearson correlation) .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pearson: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (29458) Pearson in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (29458) Pearson in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).