(8079) Bernardlovell
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Asteroid (8079) Bernardlovell |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3733 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1941 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9127 AU - 2.8340 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5472 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 287.3473 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 94.1994 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.33 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | 4th December 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 XF 1 , 1975 XQ 1 , 1982 RV |
| 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. | |
(8079) Bernardlovell is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 December 1986 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 26, 2000 after the British astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy Bernard Lovell (1913-2012), who founded the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1969 to 1971 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bernardlovell: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bernardlovell in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8079) Bernardlovell in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).