(5048) Moriarty
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Asteroid (5048) Moriarty |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6258 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1738 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1695 AU - 3.0820 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3929 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.25 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.37 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | April 1, 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 GC, 1951 EJ 1 , 1972 BA, 1977 KJ 1 , 1978 TV 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. | |
(5048) Moriarty is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 1 April 1981 by the US American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Professor Moriarty , the antagonist of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's novels .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Moriarty: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Moriarty in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5048) Moriarty in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).