(7495) Feynman

Asteroid (7495) Feynman
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.8039 AU
eccentricity	0.1631
Perihelion - aphelion	2.3465 AU - 3.2613 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	6.7770 °
Length of the ascending node	252.6677 °
Argument of the periapsis	243.9051 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	19th May 2020
Sidereal period	4.70 a
Mean orbital velocity	17.77 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	7.527 km (± 3.429)
Albedo	0.078 (± 0.049)
Absolute brightness	14.3 mag
history
Explorer	Miloš Tichý , Zdeněk Moravec
Date of discovery	November 22, 1995
Another name	1995 WS ₄ , 1986 WW ₆ , 1992 BS ₂
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(7495) Feynman is an asteroid of the central main belt , which was discovered on November 22, 1995 by the Czech astronomers Miloš Tichý and Zdeněk Moravec at the Kleť observatory ( IAU code 046) near Český Krumlov . The asteroid had already been sighted on November 28, 1986 under the provisional designation 1986 WW ₆ at the French Observatoire de Calern and in January 1992 (1992 BS ₂ ) at the Steward Observatory's remote station on Kitt Peak .

(7495) Feynman is named after the American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman . The name was given by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on April 22, 1997.

Web links

(7495) Feynman in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

(7495) Feynman in the Small-Body Database of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)