(8077) Hoyle

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Asteroid
(8077) Hoyle
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.6293  AU
eccentricity 0.2154
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0628 AU - 3.1957 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 17.2698 °
Length of the ascending node 135.7770 °
Argument of the periapsis 35.1980 °
Sidereal period 4.26 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.35 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 2.7454 h
Absolute brightness 12.7 mag
history
Explorer Edward LG Bowell
Date of discovery January 12, 1986
Another name 1986 AW 2 , 1995 CP 1
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(8077) Hoyle is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 January 1986 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County , Arizona was discovered.

The asteroid was named on July 26, 2000 after the British astronomer and mathematician Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), who was one of the world's leading theorists of astrophysics due to his scientific non-conformism .

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