(3521) Comrie
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Asteroid (3521) Comrie |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2616 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0674 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1092 AU - 2.4140 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8698 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 58.8736 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 34.3909 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.40 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.80 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
A. Gilmore P. Kilmartin |
| Date of discovery | June 26, 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 MH |
| 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. | |
(3521) Comrie is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 June 1982 by the New Zealand astronomer Alan C. Gilmore and Pamela Margaret Kilmartin at Mt John University Observatory ( IAU code 474) near the Lake Tekapo on the Southern Island of New Zealand was discovered .
The asteroid was named after Leslie John Comrie (1893–1950), a New Zealand astronomer and pioneer in the field of calculating machines .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Comrie: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3521) Comrie in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3521) Comrie in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).