(7808) Bagould
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Asteroid (7808) Bagould |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5587 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1574 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1559 AU - 2.9616 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5354 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 272.2016 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 354.4753 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.09 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 8 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Mario R. Cesco |
| Date of discovery | April 5th 1976 |
| Another name | 1976 GL 8 , 1976 HR, 1990 XD |
| 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. | |
(7808) Bagould is an asteroid of the Main Belt . It was discovered on April 5, 1976 by the Argentine astronomer Mario R. Cesco at the Felix Aguilar Observatory ( IAU code 808) in El Leoncito National Park in Argentina.
The asteroid was named on May 20, 2008 after the American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), who founded the renowned Astronomical Journal in 1849 and became the first director of the Argentine National Observatory (today Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba) in 1868 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bagould: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bagould in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7808) Bagould in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).