(75564) Audubon
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Asteroid (75564) Audubon |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3105 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1342 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2,0004 AU - 2.6207 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.7646 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 109.4085 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 57.7250 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.51 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Charles W. Juels |
| Date of discovery | January 2, 2000 |
| Another name | 2000 AJ , 2001 LO 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. | |
(75564) Audubon is a main inner belt asteroid discovered on January 2, 2000 by the American amateur astronomer Charles W. Juels at the Fountain Hills Observatory , Arizona ( IAU code 678).
The asteroid was named on June 13, 2006 after the American ornithologist and draftsman John James Audubon (1785-1851), who is best known for his major work The Birds of America .
Web links
- (75564) Audubon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (75564) Audubon in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (75564) Audubon according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)