(9780) Bandersnatch
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Asteroid (9780) Bandersnatch |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2,2001 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1013 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9773 AU - 2.4229 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.2610 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.08 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 8.234 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Yoshisada Shimizu , Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | September 25, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 SB, 1973 FL 2 |
| 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. | |
(9780) Bandersnatch is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 25 September 1994 by the Japanese astronomer Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Nachi-Katsuura Observatory ( IAU code 905) in the Wakayama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the mysterious figure of Bandersnatch from the poem Jabberwocky , which comes from the story Alice Behind the Mirrors by British writer Lewis Carroll .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bandersnatch: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bandersnatch in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9780) Bandersnatch in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).