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2981 Chagall
Main-belt asteroid
Main-belt asteroid
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| minorplanet | yes |
| name | 2981 Chagall |
| background | #D6D6D6 |
| discovery_ref | |
| discovered | 2 March 1981 |
| discoverer | S. J. Bus |
| discovery_site | Siding Spring Obs. |
| mpc_name | (2981) Chagall |
| alt_names | 1954 LF |
| named_after | Marc Chagall |
| mp_category | main-beltThemis |
| orbit_ref | |
| epoch | 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) |
| uncertainty | 0 |
| observation_arc | 62.48 yr (22,822 days) |
| aphelion | 3.6918 AU |
| perihelion | 2.6122 AU |
| semimajor | 3.1520 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1713 |
| period | 5.60 yr (2,044 days) |
| mean_anomaly | 92.248° |
| mean_motion | / day |
| inclination | 0.8657° |
| asc_node | 185.87° |
| arg_peri | 99.029° |
| dimensions | |
| rotation | 0.11232 h |
| albedo | |
| abs_magnitude | 12.5 |
2981 Chagall, provisionally designated , is a Themistian asteroid from the asteroid belt, discovered on 2 March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.
The asteroid was named after the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall (1887–1985).
References
- Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html
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