- 39427 Charlottebrontë
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39427 Charlottebrontë Name Name Charlottebrontë Designation 3360 T-2 Discovery Discoverer Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels Discovery date September 25, 1973 Discovery site Palomar Observatory Orbital elements Epoch October 27, 2007 (JDCT 2454400.5) Eccentricity (e) 0.1893316 Semimajor axis (a) 3.9842069 AU Perihelion (q) 3.2298706 AU Aphelion (Q) 4.7385432 AU Orbital period (P) 7.95 a Inclination (i) 3.87404° Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 68.62377° Argument of Perihelion (ω) 242.47546° Mean anomaly (M) 167.91692° 39427 Charlottebrontë is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2904.7667384 days (7.95 years).[1] It has an average orbital speed of 14.92096789 km/s.
The asteroid was discovered on September 25, 1973 at the Palomar Observatory.
This asteroid is named after Charlotte Brontë an English novelist and poet.[1]
References
- ^ a b "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=39427. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
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