(4779) Whitley
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Asteroid (4779) Whitley |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1895 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1207 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8045 AU - 3.5746 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.9287 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 185.3740 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 327.8536 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.70 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 15 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Edward LG Bowell Archibald Warnock |
| Date of discovery | December 6, 1978 |
| Another name | 1978 XQ , 1973 YK 3 , 1986 EG 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. | |
(4779) Whitley is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the on December 6, 1978 American US astronomer Edward LG Bowell and Archibald Warnock at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(4779) Whitley was named after the American country musician Keith Whitley (1955-1989).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (4779) Whitley in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- (4779) Whitley in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Whitley in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Asteroid Whitley: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA