3960 Chaliubieju
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovery date | 20 January 1955 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 3960 |
| 1955 BG | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 22302 days (61.06 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.3789172 AU (505.47882 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9051365 AU (285.00436 Gm) |
| 2.642027 AU (395.2416 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2789110 |
| 4.29 yr (1568.6 d) | |
| 79.295797° | |
| 0° 13m 46.23s / day | |
| Inclination | 14.41345° |
| 84.84528° | |
| 12.68187° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.923871 AU (138.2091 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.85634 AU (277.705 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.295 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 3.986 h (0.1661 d) | |
| 12.3 | |
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3960 Chaliubieju (1955 BG) is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China on January 20, 1955. The discoverer named 3960 Chaliubieju for his friend, Cha Liubieju, who dedicated themselves to the welfare and education of impoverished and ill mothers and children in China.[1]
References
- 1 2 "3960 Chaliubieju (1955 BG)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html
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