(8977) Paludicola
Asteroid (8977) Paludicola |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.1997 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1173 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9416 AU - 2.4578 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5846 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 20.07 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
Another name | 4272 T-2, 1991 DC 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. |
(8977) paludicola is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 29 September 1973 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the scientific name Acrocephalus paludicola for the reed warbler .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Paludicola: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Paludicola in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8977) Paludicola in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).