4776 Luyi
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Harvard University |
| Discovery site | Harvard |
| Discovery date | 3 November 1975 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4776 |
Named after | Luyi County |
| 1975 VD | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 14747 days (40.38 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.8529985 AU (426.80250 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.7793289 AU (266.18381 Gm) |
| 2.316164 AU (346.4932 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2317776 |
| 3.53 yr (1287.5 d) | |
| 176.91778° | |
| 0° 16m 46.59s / day | |
| Inclination | 5.393665° |
| 3.250132° | |
| 348.92886° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.772471 AU (115.5600 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.57294 AU (384.906 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.539 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 14.3 | |
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4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism,[2] because the astronomer C.Y. Shao, a long-time participant in the minor planet program at Harvard, came from that town. His son was also named for it.
References
- ↑ "4776 Luyi (1975 VD)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Fifth ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
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