(9618) Johncleese
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Asteroid (9618) Johncleese |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3692 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1400 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0375 AU - 2.7009 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.9677 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 34.3654 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 313.8352 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.35 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | UESAC |
| Date of discovery | March 17, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 FQ 8 , 1986 HF, 1997 GX 6 |
| 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. | |
(9618) John Cleese is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 March 1993 as part of the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets on La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 20, 2000 after the British comedian , actor , screenwriter and voice actor John Cleese (* 1939), who became famous as a member of the British comedian group Monty Python and was successful with the television series Fawlty Towers and the film A Fish Called Wanda was.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Johncleese: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Johncleese in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9618) Johncleese in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).