(3009) Coventry
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Asteroid (3009) Coventry |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1966 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2042 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7481 AU - 2.6451 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.5578 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.09 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 6.08 km (± 0.6) |
| Albedo | 0.1096 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | NS Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | 22nd September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 SM 2 , 1979 JB, 1982 FV 3 |
| 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. | |
(3009) Coventry is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 22, 1973 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named after the English industrial city of Coventry , which was bombed several times and badly destroyed by the German Air Force during World War II .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Coventry: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3009) Coventry in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3009) Coventry in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).