(48575) Hawaii
Asteroid (48575) Hawaii |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 3.0620 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1086 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7296 AU - 3.3944 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.3645 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 228.5085 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 234.4064 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.36 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.02 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 6.823 ± 0.187 km |
Albedo | 0.138 ± 0.016 |
Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | A. Nakamura |
Date of discovery | 4th July 1994 |
Another name | 1994 NN , 1999 FY 52 |
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. |
(48575) Hawaii is the main belt situated asteroid that on July 4, 1994 by Japanese astronomers Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma-Kōgen Observatory ( IAU code 360) in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku was discovered.
The asteroid was named on September 28, 2004 after the island chain Hawaii , which lies in the Pacific and is the 50th state in the USA . Hawaii , also known as the Big Island, is also the name of the largest island in the archipelago.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hawaii: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (48575) Hawaii in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (48575) Hawaii in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).