(3437) Kapitsa
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Asteroid (3437) Kapitsa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2712 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0752 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1003 AU - 2.4421 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.9394 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.42 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.76 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | LG Karachkina |
| Date of discovery | October 20, 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 UZ 5 , 1951 UE, 1953 FA, 1972 YC 1 , 1975 WS 1 , 1982 VS 5 , 1984 HU 1 , 1984 KV |
| 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. | |
(3437) Kapitsa is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 20, 1982 by the Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named after the Russian physicist Pjotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza (1894-1984), who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kapitsa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3437) Kapitsa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3437) Kapitsa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).