(2952) Lilliputia

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Asteroid
(2952) Lilliputia
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.3132 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1715 ± 0.0003
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9165 ± 0.0006 AU - 2.7098 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 3.3183 ± 0.0453 °
Length of the ascending node 323.2097 ± 0.0537 °
Argument of the periapsis 78.9247 ± 0.5545 °
Time of passage of the perihelion September 14, 2018
Sidereal period 3.52 a ± 0.0657 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 6.030 ± 1.351 km
Albedo 0.101 ± 0.055
Rotation period ≈3.26 ± 0.978 h
Absolute brightness 14.2 mag
Spectral class SMASSII: Cb
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Nikolai Stepanowitsch TschernychRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Date of discovery 22nd September 1979
Another name 1979 SF 2 ; 1965 UL; 1974 HK 3
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(2952) Lilliputia ( 1979 SF 2 ; 1965 UL ; 1974 HK 3 ) is an approximately six kilometers large asteroid of the inner main belt that was discovered on September 22, 1979 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory (branch Nautschnyj) was discovered on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2952) Lilliputia was named after the fictional island Liliput from the novel Gulliver's Travels by the writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) from the Kingdom of Ireland . The name was chosen because the asteroid is one of the smallest discovered at the Crimean Observatory.

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Web links

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 25, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1979 SF 2 . Discovered 1979 Sept. 22 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2951) Perepadin numbering (2953) Vysheslavia