1322 Coppernicus

Minor Planet
name=1322 Coppernicus
discoverer=K. Reinmuth
discovery_date=15 June 1934
designations=1934 LA
category=Main belt
epoch=
semimajor=
perihelion=
aphelion=
eccentricity=0.2345
period=3.772 a
inclination=23.348°
asc_node=298.466°
arg_peri=99.333°
mean_anomaly=206.388°
speed=18.07 km/s
dimensions=12.2 km
mass=7.7×10¹⁴? kg
density=1.1 g/cm³
gravity=0.0017? m/s²
escape_velocity=0.0043? km/s
rotation= 3.967 h
spectral_class=S
abs_mag=12.399
albedo=0.160
temperature=~171 K

(1322) Coppernicus is an asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 15 June 1934 by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in Heidelberg.

The name refers to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, with the spelling according to the one preferred by the biographer Leopold Prowe.

External links

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* [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.txt Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets]
* [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/astmoons/am-01322.html Johnston Archive entry for 1322 Coppernicus]