(32605) Lucy
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Asteroid (32605) Lucy |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0120 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2094 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3814 AU - 3.6426 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4446 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 48.9442 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 210.8164 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.23 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | William Kwong Yu Yeung |
| Date of discovery | August 23, 2001 |
| Another name | 2001 QM 213 , 1979 HN, 1996 TU 8 , 1999 CV 39 |
| 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. | |
(32605) Lucy is a major outer belt asteroid discovered on August 23, 2001 by the Canadian astronomer of Hong Kong origin William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Eagle Observatory near Benson , Arizona ( IAU code 333).
There had already been several unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid: on April 19 and 26, 1979 (1979 HN) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile , on October 9 and 13, 1996 (1996 TU 8 ) at the Haleakalā Observatory Maui as part of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking and Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) projects and on February 10 and 13, 1999 (1999 CV 39 ) at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System in Socorro , New Mexico .
(32605) Lucy was named on June 18, 2008 after Lucy , a partial skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis , probably around 3.2 million years old, discovered in 1974 in the Afar Triangle .
Web links
- (32605) Lucy in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (32605) Lucy in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (32605) Lucy according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (32605) Lucy at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)