(495181) Rogerwaters
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Asteroid (495181) Rogerwaters |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6404 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2791 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9035 AU - 3.3774 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.9735 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 357.2932 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 16.9573 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | May 13, 2021 |
| Sidereal period | 4.29 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Michał Żołnowski , Michał Kusiak |
| Date of discovery | August 15, 2012 |
| Another name | 2012 PV 19 |
| 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. | |
(495181) Rogerwaters is an asteroid in the main central belt . It was discovered on August 15, 2012 by the Polish amateur astronomers Michał Żołnowski and Michał Kusiak at the Rantiga Osservatorio ( IAU code D03). They set up the Rantiga Osservatorio with a 40 cm reflector telescope in the Italian village of Tincana , near Carpineti , and were able to operate it from Poland.
The solar orbit of (495181) Rogerwaters is strongly elliptical with an eccentricity of 0.2791 and with almost 15 ° strongly inclined to the ecliptic of the solar system .
The asteroid was named after the English musician Roger Waters (* 1943) on November 4, 2017 at the suggestion of Michał Kusiak . Waters is the bass player for the rock band Pink Floyd . His solo albums “ Amused to Death ” and “ Is This the Life We Really Want? “Highlighted. The Waters impact crater on the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury, on the other hand, was named after the blues musician Muddy Waters in 2012 . An asteroid was named after Pink Floyd in 2003: (19367) Pink Floyd .
Web links
- (495181) Rogerwaters in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (495181) Rogerwaters 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 of (495181) Rogerwaters according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kolejne trzy polskie planetoidy nazwane . Declaration on naming dated November 7, 2017 on urania.edu.pl (Polish)
- ↑ The Mercury Crater Waters in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)
- ↑ (19367) Pink Floyd in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).