(4510) Shawna
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Asteroid (4510) Shawna |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3600 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1381 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0341 AU - 2.6860 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.0406 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 3.5200 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 338.0999 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.63 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.39 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| Spectral class | S. |
| history | |
| Explorer | Clyde Tombaugh |
| Date of discovery | December 13, 1930 |
| Another name | 1930 XK , 1966 UC 1 , 1977 TY 3 , 1987 MJ 1 , 1988 VP 2 |
| 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. | |
(4510) Shawna is a main inner belt asteroid discovered on December 13, 1930 by the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) at the Lowell Observatory ( IAU code 690) in Flagstaff , Arizona , almost nine months after his discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto .
The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
(4510) Shawna was named after Shawna Willoughby, Clyde Tombaugh's granddaughter, on May 28, 1991. The asteroid of the inner main belt (4755) was named Nicky after another granddaughter of Tombaugh, Nichole Tombaugh .
Web links
- (4510) Shawna in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (4510) Shawna in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (4510) Shawna which according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Master list of well classified asteroids (English)
- ↑ The family affiliation of (4510) Shawna in the database AstDyS-2 (English)
- ↑ The Minor Planet Circulars # 18161 to # 18322 , page 148 ( PDF , English; 346 kB)