(44711) Carp

Asteroid (44711) Carp
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  February 16, 2017 ( JD 2,457,800.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.2536  AU
eccentricity	0.2358
Perihelion - aphelion	1.7222 AU - 2.7851 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	5.3255 °
Length of the ascending node	307.5104 °
Argument of the periapsis	281.2002 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	July 27, 2015
Sidereal period	3.38 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.84 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	14.7 mag
history
Explorer	Akimasa Nakamura
Date of discovery	October 3, 1999
Another name	1999 TD 4 , 1988 EB 3
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(44711) Carp is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which on 3 October 1999 by the Japanese astronomer Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma-Kōgen Observatory ( IAU code 360) in Kumakogen in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku was discovered. There had already been an unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid on March 14, 1988 under the provisional designation 1988 EB ₃ at the Palomar Observatory in California .

The asteroid was named on August 6, 2003 at the suggestion of Akimasa Nakamura after the Japanese baseball team Hiroshima Tōyō Carp . Nakamura is a fan of the team.

Web links

• Photography of the asteroid
• (44711) Carp in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (44711) Carp in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
• Discovery Circumstances of (44711) Carp 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. ↑ (44711) Carp at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
2. ↑ News from Columbine of Maine , quoting a news item on Japan Today from October 1, 2003