4230 van den Bergh
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | 19 September 1973 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4230 |
Named after | Sidney Van den Bergh |
| 1973 ST1 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 23476 days (64.27 yr) |
| Aphelion | 4.4824724 AU (670.56833 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 3.4250346 AU (512.37788 Gm) |
| 3.953754 AU (591.4732 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1337258 |
| 7.86 yr (2871.5 d) | |
| 323.53091° | |
| 0° 7m 31.328s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.099514° |
| 160.53360° | |
| 22.90514° | |
| Earth MOID | 2.42774 AU (363.185 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 0.477233 AU (71.3930 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.041 |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 18.875 ± 1.45 km |
| 88.0 h (3.67 d) | |
| 0.0259 ± 0.005 | |
| 11.8 | |
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4230 Van den Bergh (1973 ST1) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named for Sidney Van den Bergh, Dutch Canadian astronomer and former director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.[2]
References
- ↑ "4230 van den Bergh (1973 ST1)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ Canadian Asteroids, The Royal Astronomy Society of Canada, July 22, 2008, retrieved 2009-01-19
External links
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 4230 Van den Bergh
- 4230 van den Bergh at the JPL Small-Body Database
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