(7644) Cslewis
Asteroid (7644) Cslewis |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt |
Asteroid family | Maria family |
Major semi-axis | 2.5843 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1348 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2359 AU - 2.9327 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.8303 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 219.6442 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 140.0265 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.15 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.53 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 5.790 ± 0.274 km |
Albedo | 0.174 ± 0.024 |
Rotation period | 2.31 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Antonin Mrkos |
Date of discovery | 4th November 1988 |
Another name | 1988 VR 5 , 1991 JZ 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. |
(7644) Cslewis is an asteroid of the central main belt discovered on November 4, 1988 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory ( IAU code 046) near the town of Český Krumlov in Bohemia .
It was named on March 9, 2001 after the Irish writer and literary scholar C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), who is best known in the Anglo-American region for his children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia .
The celestial body belongs to the Maria family, a group of asteroids named after (170) Maria .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (7644) Cslewis in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Cslewis: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Cslewis in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7644) Cslewis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).