(6012) Williammur but
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Asteroid (6012) Williammurdoch |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6314 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.3446 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7245 AU - 3.5382 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 18.2508 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 62.6606 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 251.6456 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.27 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 2,894 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Robert McNaught |
| Date of discovery | September 22, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 SK 4 , 1977 KU 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. | |
(6012) Williammurdoch is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 September 1990 by the British - Australian astronomer Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory ( IAU code 413) near Coonabarabran in New South Wales was discovered in Australia.
The asteroid was named on August 10, 2014 after the Scottish engineer and inventor William Murdoch (1754-1839), who invented a number of important applications of the steam engine, such as the locomotive and gas lighting using town gas , in Britain's early industrial phase .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Williammurdoch: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Williammurdoch in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6012) Williammurdoch in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).