(71556) Page
Asteroid (71556) Page |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 3.0367 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0927 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7553 AU - 3.3181 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.45889 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 278.4458 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 160.1346 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.29 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.07 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | DS Dixon |
Date of discovery | February 27, 2000 |
Another name | 2000 DW 17 |
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. |
(71556) Page is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 February 2000 by the American astronomer David S. Dixon at Jornada Observatory (IAU code 715) in Las Cruces , New Mexico was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU, bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.
It was named on May 4, 2004 in honor of the American physicist and astrophysicist Gary L. Page of George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia , who researched the existence and effects of non-baryonic matter within the solar system .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Page: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Page in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (71556) Page in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)