(4969) Lawrence
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Asteroid (4969) Lawrence |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Pallas family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7562 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.3625 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7570 AU - 3.7554 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 31.4462 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 186.5095 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 245.3335 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.58 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.93 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 6.712 ± 1.472 km |
| Albedo | 0.171 ± 0.057 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: C |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eleanor Helin |
| Date of discovery | 4th October 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 TU , 1977 RV 4 , 1986 WC 8 , 1988 GB 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. | |
(4969) Lawrence is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the October 4, 1986 American US astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 675).
The asteroid was named after the American astronomer Kenneth J. Lawrence named (* 1964), of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA operates.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Lawrence: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Lawrence in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4969) Lawrence in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).