(49272) Bryce Canyon
Asteroid (49272) Bryce Canyon |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6339 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2173 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0617 AU - 3.2062 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.4506 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 308.3790 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 114.5770 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.27 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | RA Tucker |
Date of discovery | October 27, 1998 |
Another name | 1998 UT 16 , 2000 GG 159 |
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. |
(49272) Bryce Canyon is a Main Belt asteroid discovered by Roy A. Tucker at the Goodricke-Pigott Observatory ( IAU code 683) in Arizona on October 27, 1998 . It was named on April 2, 2007 after Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah , where there is one of the darkest night skies on the mainland of the USA , which enables particularly good sky observation.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bryce Canyon: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (49272) Bryce Canyon in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (49272) Bryce Canyon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (49272) Bryce Canyon in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).