(4864) Nimoy
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Asteroid (4864) Nimoy |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4680 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1778 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0291 AU - 2.9068 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.6184 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 94.1530 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 241.7797 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | November 9, 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 3.88 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 11.874 (± 0.073) km |
| Albedo | 0.054 (± 0.009) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Henri Debehogne |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 RA 5 , 1957 SA, 1968 KD, 1969 VD 1 , 1976 MG, 1985 XZ 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. | |
(4864) Nimoy is an asteroid located in the main inner belt . It was discovered on September 2, 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). There had been several sightings of the asteroid before: on September 18, 1957 under the provisional designation 1957 SA at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana , on May 22, 1968 (1968 KD), November 11, 1969 (1969 VD 1 ) and June 20, 1976 (1976 MG) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on December 24, 1985 (1985 XZ 1 ) at the Palomar Observatory in California .
According to calculations, the mean diameter of (4864) Nimoy is almost 12 kilometers, the albedo of 0.054 (± 0.009) suggests a dark surface.
Mean distance from the sun ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid lie within the respective limit values that are defined for the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called Hertha family, according to (135) Hertha ).
(4864) Nimoy was named after the American actor , film director and author Leonard Nimoy on June 2, 2015 , a few months after his death. Nimoy was best known for his portrayal of the officer Spock in the series Starship Enterprise . The main outer belt asteroid (2309) Mr. Spock, on the other hand, was named in 1985 after a cat named after Spock.
See also
Web links
- (4864) Nimoy in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (4864) Nimoy in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (4864) Nimoy according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (4864) Nimoy on minorplanetcenter.net (English)