(39882) Edgarmitchell

Asteroid (39882) Edgarmitchell
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  February 16, 2017 ( JD 2,457,800.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.3654  AU
eccentricity	0.0153
Perihelion - aphelion	2.3292 AU - 2.4016 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	5.3742 °
Length of the ascending node	45.4032 °
Argument of the periapsis	89.3911 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	January 11, 2016
Sidereal period	3.64 a
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	2.490 km (± 0.675)
Albedo	0.285 (± 0.169)
Absolute brightness	15.1 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	March 1, 1998
Another name	1998 EM 11
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(39882) Edgarmitchell is a main inner belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).

The diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 2.490 km (± 0.675).

(39882) Edgarmitchell was named on March 23, 2016 after the US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who had died six weeks earlier . Mitchell was the sixth person to step on the moon . The lunar crater Mitchell, on the other hand, was named after the astronomer Maria Mitchell in 1935.

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• (39882) Edgarmitchell in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (39882) Edgarmitchell in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
• Discovery Circumstances of (39882) Edgarmitchell according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The lunar crater Mitchell in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS