(3563) Canterbury
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Asteroid (3563) Canterbury |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Dora family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7902 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1808 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2857 AU - 3.2947 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.9553 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 267.7789 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 346.1021 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.81 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 15.5527 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: Ch |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Alan C. Gilmore Pamela Margaret Kilmartin |
| Date of discovery | March 23, 1985 |
| Another name | 1985 FE , 1978 VL 6 |
| 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. | |
(3563) Canterbury is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 March 1985 by the New Zealand astronomer Alan C. Gilmore and Pamela Margaret Kilmartin at Mt John University Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 474).
The asteroid belongs to the Dora family, a group of asteroids named after (668) Dora .
(3563) Canterbury was named after the Canterbury region in New Zealand.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Canterbury: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3563) Canterbury in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3563) Canterbury in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).