(7020) Yourcenar
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Asteroid (7020) Yourcenar |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4296 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1678 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0220 AU - 2.8371 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4618 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 180.7580 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.79 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.11 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 10.18 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
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| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 4, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 GR 2 , 1970 QE, 1977 JU, 1978 UC 2 , 1978 VN 15 , 1989 SV 10 , 1993 UQ |
| 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. | |
(7020) Yourcenar is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 April 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the Belgian writer Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), who was born as Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour and in 1980 was the first woman to be accepted at the prestigious and exclusive Académie française .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Yourcenar: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Yourcenar in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7020) Yourcenar in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).