(3400) Aotearoa
Asteroid (3400) Aotearoa |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 1.9354 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0989 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7440 AU - 2.1267 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 20.2274 ° |
Sidereal period | 2.69 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 21.41 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Alan C. Gilmore Pamela Margaret Kilmartin |
Date of discovery | April 2, 1981 |
Another name | 1981 GX |
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. |
(3400) Aotearoa is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 2, 1981 by the New Zealand astronomer Alan C. Gilmore and Pamela Margaret Kilmartin at Mt John University Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 474).
The asteroid was named after the Māori word for New Zealand.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Aotearoa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3400) Aotearoa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3400) Aotearoa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).