(7672) Hawking
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Asteroid (7672) Hawking |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2523 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0723 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0894 AU - 2.4152 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.8818 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 22.3105 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 28.0344 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.38 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.84 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.013 ± 0.350 km |
| Albedo | 0.251 ± 0.147 |
| Absolute brightness | 15.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Kleť Observatory |
| Date of discovery | October 24, 1995 |
| Another name | 1995 UO 2 , 1978 UD 8 |
| 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. | |
(7672) Hawking is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 24 October 1995 at the Kleť Observatory in South Bohemia near the town of Cesky Krumlov was discovered.
The asteroid was named on February 11, 1998 after the British theoretical physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), who, although he was dependent on a wheelchair since 1968 and lost the ability to speak in 1985, did important work on cosmology and general relativity and delivered to black holes .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hawking: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (7672) Hawking in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (7672) Hawking in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).