(4816) Connelly
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Asteroid (4816) Connelly |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5889 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2744 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8786 AU - 3.2992 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.8213 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 274.8211 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 83.7489 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.17 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.51 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.8978 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | 3rd August 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 PK , 1987 BT 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. | |
(4816) Connelly is an asteroid of the main belt , which on August 3, 1981 by the US American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the American mathematician Robert Connelly (* 1942), who has been a professor at Cornell University since 1969 and who provided important foundations for astrometry and the imaging of asteroids using radar with his work .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Connelly: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Connelly in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4816) Connelly in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).