(7707) Yes
Asteroid (7707) Yes |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6529 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1408 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2793 AU - 3.0266 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 15.6816 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 131.2455 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 78.4602 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.32 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.29 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Carl W. Hergenrother |
Date of discovery | April 17, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 HM 1 , 1989 NC 1 |
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. |
(7707) Yes is an asteroid of the main middle belt discovered on April 17, 1993 by the American astronomer Carl W. Hergenrother at Catalina Station ( IAU code 693) on Mount Bigelow in Arizona . An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid (1989 NC 1 ) had already occurred in February 1989 at the Palomar Observatory in California .
The mean distance from the Sun ( major semiaxis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of (7707) Yes roughly correspond to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids of the main belt belong.
(7707) Yes is named after the British rock band Yes . The asteroid was named on March 18, 2003.
Web links
- (7707) Yes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (7707) Yes 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 of (7707) Yes , according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
- (7707) Yes on Rock & Roll Minor Planets (English)