1479 Inkeri
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Vaisala, Y. |
| Discovery site | Turku |
| Discovery date | 16 February 1938 |
| Designations | |
| 1479 | |
| 1938 DE | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 92.42 yr (33758 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.1882493 AU (476.95531 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.1635628 AU (323.66439 Gm) |
| 2.675906 AU (400.3098 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1914653 |
| 4.38 yr (1598.8 d) | |
| 1.245074° | |
| 0° 13m 30.588s / day | |
| Inclination | 7.304122° |
| 18.10960° | |
| 79.85146° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.19287 AU (178.451 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.04502 AU (305.931 Gm) |
| TJupiter | 3.341 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | ~20km |
| 660 h (28 d) | |
| 660 h | |
| 11.9 | |
1479 Inkeri (1938 DE) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 16, 1938, by Vaisala, Y. at Turku. Its 660-hour rotation period is unusually long.[2]
"Inkeri" is a Finnish female name, held by two of Vaisala's younger relatives. It is also the Finnish name of Ingria, a formerly-Finnish province near Saint Petersburg that is now part of Russia.[3]
References
- ^ "1479 Inkeri (1938 DE)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Ferrero, A.; Pilcher, F. (July 2012), "The Very Long Period of 1479 Inkeri", Minor Planet Bulletin, 39: 192–193, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39..192F.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2012), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (6th ed.), Springer, p. 115, ISBN 9783642297182.
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