3040 Kozai
| Discovery and designation | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | W. Liller |
| Discovery site | Cerro Tololo |
| Discovery date | January 23, 1979 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 3040 |
| 1979 BA | |
| Mars crosser[1] | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 2.2095160 |
| Perihelion | 1.4716744 |
| Eccentricity | 0.2004356 |
| 912.0861216 | |
| 311.47278 | |
| Inclination | 46.64688 |
| 143.54061 | |
| 290.25345 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 5 – 11 km[2] |
| 13.7[1] | |
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3040 Kozai[3] (1979 BA) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on January 23, 1979 by W. Liller at Cerro Tololo.
With an absolute magnitude of 13.7,[1] the asteroid is about 5–11 km in diameter.[2] The asteroid will pass 0.034 AU (5,100,000 km; 3,200,000 mi) from Mars on 2044-Jan-10 and 0.023 AU (3,400,000 km; 2,100,000 mi) from Mars on 2188-Nov-07.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3040 Kozai (1979 BA)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ↑ Yoshihide Kosai (or, more frequently, Yoshihide Kozai), 20th-century Japanese astronomer, discoverer of the periodic comet D/1977 C1 (D/Skiff-Kosai) and of the Kozai mechanism
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