(6984) Lewiscarroll
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Asteroid (6984) Lewiscarroll |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.9761 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1884 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.2272 AU - 4.7250 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 16.7971 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 206.2049 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 248.1859 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | October 26, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 7.93 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 14.94 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 48.056 (± 0.313) km |
| Albedo | 0.044 (± 0.004) |
| Rotation period | 24.65 h |
| Absolute brightness | 10.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
H. Shiozawa T. Urata |
| Date of discovery | 4th January 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 AO , 1953 UQ, 1969 VZ 2 , 1972 HK 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. | |
(6984) Lewiscarroll is an asteroid of the outer main belt , on 4 January 1994 by the Japanese astronomer Hitoshi Shiozawa and Takeshi Urata at the Observatory of Fujieda ( IAU code 898) in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka was discovered.
The asteroid was on 2 February 1999 by the British writers of the Victorian era , photographer , mathematician and Deacon Lewis Carroll named (1832-1898), of the children's books Alice in Wonderland , Alice Through the Looking Glass (or Alice Through the Looking Glass ) and The Hunting of the Snark .
See also
Web links
- (6984) Lewiscarroll in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6984) Lewiscarroll in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (6984) Lewiscarroll according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)