Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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992 Swasey | |
Mpc Name: | (992) Swasey |
Alt Names: | 1922 ND |
Discovered: | 14 November 1922 |
Orbit Ref: | [1] |
Observation Arc: | 93.41 yr (34118 days) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.085029 |
Semimajor: | 3.0291AU |
Perihelion: | 2.7715AU |
Aphelion: | 3.2866abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Period: | 5.27 yr (1925.6 d) |
Inclination: | 10.843° |
Asc Node: | 212.248° |
Arg Peri: | 345.294° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Abs Magnitude: | 10.5 |
Rotation: | 13.308abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Mean Radius: | km |
992 Swasey is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Otto Struve in 1922 at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It is named after Ambrose Swasey of the Warner & Swasey Company, which built the 82-inch telescope named after Struve at McDonald Observatory.[2]