(9620) Ericidle
Asteroid (9620) Ericidle |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.2507 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1547 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9026 AU - 2.5989 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2437 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 74.5278 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 2.4183 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.38 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.85 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | UESAC |
Date of discovery | March 17, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 FU 13 , 1988 XQ 4 , 1991 RE 35 |
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. |
(9620) Ericidle 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 English actor , film producer , director , composer and book author Eric Idle (* 1943), who was a founding member of the British comedian group Monty Python .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ericidle: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ericidle in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9620) Ericidle in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).