(3581) Alvarez
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Asteroid (3581) Alvarez |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Mars cruiser |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7767 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.4064 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.6483 AU - 3.9051 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 28.8171 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 217.5237 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 107.4672 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.63 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.89 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 33.42 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII : B |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Carolyn Shoemaker Eugene Shoemaker |
| Date of discovery | April 23, 1985 |
| Another name | 1985 HC , 1962 JL, 1971 KE, 1981 TG 4 |
| 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. | |
(3581) Alvarez is the orbit of Mars grazing asteroid of the main belt , which from April 23, 1985 American US astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the American physicist and inventor Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), who worked on the development of the atomic bomb and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his contributions to elementary particle physics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Alvarez: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3581) Alvarez in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3581) Alvarez in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).