1540 Kevola
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | L. Oterma |
Discovery site | Turku |
Discovery date | 16 November 1938 |
Designations | |
1540 | |
Named after | Kevola Observatory |
1938 WK | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 89.97 yr (32861 days) |
Aphelion | 3.0889787 AU (462.10464 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.6070513 AU (390.00932 Gm) |
2.848015 AU (426.0570 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.0846076 |
4.81 yr (1755.5 d) | |
315.1260° | |
0° 12m 18.233s / day | |
Inclination | 11.96830° |
52.48768° | |
113.84820° | |
Earth MOID | 1.63743 AU (244.956 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 1.94465 AU (290.915 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.269 |
Physical characteristics | |
22.09±0.85 km | |
20.082 h (0.8368 d) | |
0.0433±0.004 | |
10.8 | |
1540 Kevola (1938 WK) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 16, 1938, by L. Oterma at Turku. It was named after the Kevola Observatory in Finland, operated by Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius.
References
- ^ "1540 Kevola (1938 WK)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- Behrend, R. (2007) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html
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