(4956) Noymer
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Asteroid (4956) Noymer |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4455 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2033 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9484 AU - 2.9426 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 24.2305 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 169.3478 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.82 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.05 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Robert McNaught |
| Date of discovery | November 12, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VG 1 , 1982 SG, 1991 AH |
| 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. | |
(4956) Noymer is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 November 1990 by the British - Australian astronomer Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 413) in Australia.
On November 4, 1991, on the occasion of his 20th birthday, the asteroid was named after the American astronomer Andrew J. Noymer (* 1971), who worked for the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and in 1988 for several weeks the Visited Siding Spring Observatory where he discovered seven asteroids.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Noymer: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Noymer in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4956) Noymer in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).