Minorplanet: | yes |
2942 Cordie | |
Background: |
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Discovery Ref: |   |
Discovered: | 29 January 1932 |
Mpc Name: | (2942) Cordie |
Alt Names: | 1932 BG1936 KF |
Named After: | Cordie Robinson |
Orbit Ref: |   |
Epoch: | 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Observation Arc: | 84.57 yr (30,890 days) |
Perihelion: | 1.8949 AU |
Semimajor: | 2.2388 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.1536 |
Period: | 3.35 yr (1,224 days) |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 6.8175° |
Asc Node: | 116.39° |
Arg Peri: | 154.85° |
Dimensions: | km |
Rotation: | 80abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Abs Magnitude: | 13.0 |
2942 Cordie, provisional designation, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 January 1932, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany.
The asteroid has a long rotation period of roughly 80 hours. It was named after of Cordie Robinson, planetary geologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.