(5490) Burbidge
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Asteroid (5490) Burbidge |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3034 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1187 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0300 AU - 2.5768 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2336 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 220.6619 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 273.0305 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.62 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2019 PL , 1983 EP, 1983 GK 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. | |
(5490) Burbidge is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named after the American astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020), who was the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1972 to 1973 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Burbidge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Burbidge in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5490) Burbidge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).