(7175) Janegoodall
Asteroid (7175) Janegoodall |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.5422 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1709 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1077 AU - 2.9797 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 16.0367 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 193.9997 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 152.7487 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.05 a |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 6.483 (± 0.258) km |
Albedo | 0.291 (± 0.024) |
Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Zdeňka Vávrová |
Date of discovery | October 11, 1988 |
Another name | 1988 TN 2 , 1992 SM |
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. |
(7175) Janegoodall is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 11, 1988 by the Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová at the Kleť Observatory ( IAU code 046) near the town of Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic .
The asteroid was named after the British behavioral scientist Jane Goodall (* 1934) who began studying chimpanzee behavior in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960 and founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Janegoodall: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Janegoodall in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7175) Janegoodall in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).