(30566) Stokes
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Asteroid (30566) Stokes |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3791 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2267 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8399 AU - 2.9184 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.0511 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 106.3912 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 263.7373 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.67 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.30 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | July 29, 2001 |
| Another name | 2001 OO 81 , 1994 VV 6 , 2001 OM 112 |
| 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. | |
(30566) Stokes is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 29 July 2001 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba on Observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 28, 2002 after the Irish mathematician and physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903), who formulated the theory of the absorption of light (see Stokes shift ) and who gave his name to a large number of equations.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Stokes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30566) Stokes in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (30566) Stokes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).