(4177) Kohman
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Asteroid (4177) Kohman |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.307 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.285 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.363 AU - 4.2503 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.18 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 210.76 ° |
| Sidereal period | 6.01 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | September 21, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 SS 1 |
| 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. | |
(4177) Kohman is a main belt asteroid discovered by Edward LG Bowell on September 21, 1987 at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory .
The asteroid's orbit around the Sun is in a 2: 1 resonance with the orbit of Jupiter . This resonance zone is called the Hecuba gap. There are only a few asteroids there. It is assumed that the orbit of (4177) Kohman is stable for only about 100 to 500 million years, so it is assigned to the Griqua asteroids, named after (1362) Griqua , the first and so far largest asteroid discovered with these properties.
(4177) Kohman was named after Truman Paul Kohman (* 1916), a co-discoverer of the aluminum isotope 26 Al.
Web links
- (4177) Kohman in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ F. Roig, David Nesvorny , Sylvio Ferraz-Mello : Asteroids in the 2: 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 335, 2002, pages 417 to 431 ( PDF , English)