(5418) Joyce
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Asteroid (5418) Joyce |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9689 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.3108 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0463 AU - 3.8915 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.4665 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 174.8246 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 244.4311 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.12 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.28 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 20.96 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | A. Mrkos |
| Date of discovery | August 29, 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 QG 1 , 1976 SN 7 |
| 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. | |
(5418) Joyce is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on August 29, 1981 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kle Observ observatory ( observatory code 046) near Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia .
The asteroid was named after the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), who is one of the most important representatives of literary modernism because of his works Dubliner , Ulysses and Finnegans Wake .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Joyce: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Joyce in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5418) Joyce in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).