(7032) Hitchcock
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Asteroid (7032) Hitchcock |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2882 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0925 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0764 AU - 2.5000 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2972 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Yoshisada Shimizu , Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | November 3, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 VC 2 , 1987 WN 1 , 1990 SA 16 |
| 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. | |
(7032) Hitchcock is an asteroid of the main belt , which on November 3, 1994 by Japanese astronomers Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Nachi-Katsuura Observatory ( IAU code 905) in the Wakayama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), who was born in the United Kingdom and later relocated to the USA .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hitchcock: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hitchcock in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7032) Hitchcock in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).