(3004) Knud
Asteroid (3004) Knud |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.5934 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2644 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9077 AU - 3.2791 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 30.0994 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.18 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.50 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Richard M. West |
Date of discovery | February 27, 1976 |
Another name | 1976 DD |
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(3004) Knud is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 February 1976 by the Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Greenland-Danish polar researcher and ethnologist Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933), who founded the Thule trading and research station in 1910 and who explored the Inuit culture there on numerous expeditions to the Eskimo tribes of Greenland .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Knud: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3004) Knud in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3004) Knud in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).