(4002) Shinagawa
Asteroid (4002) Shinagawa |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.5163 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0300 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4408 AU - 2.5918 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.6854 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 116.9227 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 186.1527 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.99 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.77 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 12.3 km |
Albedo | 0.2021 |
Rotation period | 175.0 h |
Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth |
Date of discovery | May 14, 1950 |
Another name | 1950 JB , 1950 JL, 1950 LO, 1984 YU 5 , 1985 BW |
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. |
(4002) Shinagawa is a main belt asteroid that was discovered on May 14, 1950 by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth from the State Observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( observatory code 024).
The asteroid was named after the Japanese technician Seishi Shinagawa (* 1944), who was the first to use a computer to calculate the orbits of celestial bodies.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Shinagawa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4002) Shinagawa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4002) Shinagawa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).