(30445) Stirling
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Asteroid (30445) Stirling |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6980 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1504 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2922 AU - 3.1038 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.0491 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 287.4899 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.43 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.12 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | July 5, 2000 |
| Another name | 2000 NJ 2 , 1999 CH 115 |
| 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. | |
(30445) Stirling is an asteroid of the main belt , which from on 5 July 2000 Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at the observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Scottish mathematician James Stirling (1692-1770), who was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1727 and who set up the Stirling formula named after him for calculating large faculties .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Stirling: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30445) Stirling in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (30445) Stirling in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).