(5077) Favaloro
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Asteroid (5077) Favaloro |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2300 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1844 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8188 AU - 2.6412 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4967 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 324.1288 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 337.7831 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.33 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Felix Aguilar Observatory |
| Date of discovery | 17th June 1974 |
| Another name | 1974 MG , 1981 SE 3 , 1981 UH 13 |
| 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. | |
(5077) Favaloro is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 June 1974 by astronomers of the Felix Aguilar Observatory at the Astronomical Leoncito device ( IAU code 829) in El Leoncito National Park was discovered in Argentina.
On November 9, 2006, the asteroid was named after the Argentine heart surgeon René Favaloro (1923–2000), who performed the first successful bypass operation on the heart in May 1967 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Favaloro: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Favaloro in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5077) Favaloro in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).