5653 Camarillo
Encyclopedia
| Name | |
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| Name | Camarillo |
| Designation | 1992 WD5 |
| Discovery | |
| Discoverers | Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... , Kenneth J. Lawrence Kenneth J. Lawrence Kenneth J. Lawrence is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids, and also co-discovered periodic comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence. The asteroid 4969 Lawrence is named in his honor.-References:... |
| Discovery date | November 21, 1992 |
| Discovery site | Palomar Palomar Observatory Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, southeast of Pasadena's Mount Wilson Observatory, in the Palomar Mountain Range. At approximately elevation, it is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology... |
| Orbital elements | |
| Epoch Epoch (astronomy) In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as celestial coordinates, or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, where these are subject to perturbations and vary with time... October 27, 2007 (JDCT Julian day Julian day is used in the Julian date system of time measurement for scientific use by the astronomy community, presenting the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon... 2454400.5) |
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| Eccentricity (e) | 0.30403 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 1.794342 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance.... |
| Perihelion (q) | 1.248795 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance.... |
| Aphelion (Q) | 2.339889 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance.... |
| Orbital period Orbital period The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of... (P) |
2.40 a Julian year (astronomy) In astronomy, a Julian year is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86 400 SI seconds each, totaling 31 557 600 seconds. The Julian year is the average length of the year in the Julian calendar used in Western societies in previous centuries, and for which the unit is... |
| Inclination Inclination Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction.-Orbits:The inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit... (i) |
6.8735° |
| Longitude of the ascending node Longitude of the ascending node The longitude of the ascending node is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. It is the angle from a reference direction, called the origin of longitude, to the direction of the ascending node, measured in a reference plane... (Ω) |
10.081° |
| Argument of Perihelion (ω) | 122.3044° |
| Mean anomaly Mean anomaly In celestial mechanics, the mean anomaly is a parameter relating position and time for a body moving in a Kepler orbit. It is based on the fact that equal areas are swept at the focus in equal intervals of time.... (M) |
319.4632° |
5653 Camarillo is an Amor asteroid
Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
with a perihelion of 1.248795 AU
Astronomical unit
An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
. It has an eccentricity of 0.30403 and an orbital period
Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...
of 877.922 days (2.40 years).
This asteroid was discovered on November 21, 1992 by Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin...
and Kenneth J. Lawrence
Kenneth J. Lawrence
Kenneth J. Lawrence is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids, and also co-discovered periodic comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence. The asteroid 4969 Lawrence is named in his honor.-References:...
.
This asteroid is named for Adolfo Camarillo, a rancher.