(7553) Buie
Asteroid (7553) Buie |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Hertha family |
Major semi-axis | 2.3911 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1470 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0397 AU - 2.7426 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2788 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 74.6972 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 95.6060 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.70 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.26 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 3.442 ± 0.220 km |
Albedo | 0.259 ± 0.063 |
Rotation period | 4.245 h |
Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
Date of discovery | March 30, 1981 |
Another name | 1981 FG , 1988 AJ 3 |
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. |
(7553) Buie is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 30 March 1981 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The celestial body belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the American astronomer and planetologist Marc William Buie , who devotes his main interest to the objects of the outer solar system and who is in charge of the Deep Ecliptic Survey project.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Buie: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Buie in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7553) Buie in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).