3467 Bernheim
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Discovery A | |
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Discoverer | Norman G. Thomas |
Discovery date | September 26, 1981 |
Alternate designations B |
1981 SF2 |
Category | Main belt (Polana) |
Orbital elements C | |
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Eccentricity (e) | 0.149 |
Semi-major axis (a) | 360.387 Gm (2.409 AU) |
Perihelion (q) | 306.573 Gm (2.049 AU) |
Aphelion (Q) | 414.201 Gm (2.769 AU) |
Orbital period (P) | 1365.725 d (3.74 a) |
Mean orbital speed | ? km/s |
Inclination (i) | 4.112° |
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) |
105.429° |
Argument of perihelion (ω) |
349.511° |
Mean anomaly (M) | 220.610° |
Physical characteristics D | |
Dimensions | 15.8 km |
Mass | ? kg |
Density | ? g/cm³ |
Surface gravity | ? m/s² |
Escape velocity | ? km/s |
Rotation period | ? d |
Spectral class | ? |
Absolute magnitude | 13.0 |
Albedo (geometric) | 0.0448 |
Mean surface temperature |
? K |
3467 Bernheim is an asteroid. It was discovered on September 26, 1981 by Norman G. Thomas of Lowell Observatory and was named to honour Robert Burnham, Jr., Thomas' former co-worker at Lowell and the author of Burnham's Celestial Handbook. A name similar to "Burnham" had already been used for 834 Burnhamia, named after the unrelated 19th century astronomer Sherburne Wesley Burnham, so Thomas chose the name "Bernheim", a name that Burnham told him had been used by his father's parents in Germany.
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