5656 Oldfield
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | W. Baade |
| Discovery site | Bergedorf |
| Discovery date | 8 October 1920 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 5656 |
Named after | Mike Oldfield |
| A920 TA | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 34529 days (94.54 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.1070255 AU (464.80440 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8118742 AU (271.05252 Gm) |
| 2.459450 AU (367.9285 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2633010 |
| 3.86 yr (1408.8 d) | |
| 281.20563° | |
| 0° 15m 19.919s / day | |
| Inclination | 4.013765° |
| 248.67082° | |
| 83.77172° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.804973 AU (120.4222 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.28131 AU (341.279 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.439 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 14.1 | |
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5656 Oldfield (A920 TA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1920 by W. Baade at Bergedorf. It has been named after the British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, creator of the famed Tubular Bells albums.[2]
References
- ↑ "5656 Oldfield (A920 TA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ "Oldfield 5656". Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Archived from the original on 23 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
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