(68410) Nichols

Asteroid (68410) Nichols
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: 4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.6802 AU
eccentricity	0.0757
Perihelion - aphelion	2.4774 AU - 2.8830 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	4.8563 °
Length of the ascending node	275.8897 °
Argument of the periapsis	127.3310 °
Sidereal period	4.39 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.19 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.163 (± 0.50869) mag
history
Explorer	Michael Collins , Minor White
Date of discovery	August 16, 2001
Another name	2001 QB ₁₅₄
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.

(68410) Nichols is a major middle belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 2001 by US astronomers Michael Collins and Minor White at the OCA-Anza Observatory ( IAU code 643) in Anza , Riverside County , California .

According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (68410) Nichols assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be trade a C asteroid .

(68410) Nichols was named after actress Nichelle Nichols , who played Lieutenant Uhura in the television series Starship Enterprise and later worked for the US space agency NASA . The asteroid was named on September 19, 2005.

Web links

(68410) Nichols in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(68410) Nichols in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
Discovery Circumstances of (68410) Nichols according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)

[1] Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)

[2] subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)