4776 Luyi

Luyi
Discovery
Discovered by Harvard University
Discovery site Harvard
Discovery date 3 November 1975
Designations
MPC designation 4776
Named after
Luyi County
1975 VD
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 14747 days (40.38 yr)
Aphelion 2.8529985 AU (426.80250 Gm)
Perihelion 1.7793289 AU (266.18381 Gm)
2.316164 AU (346.4932 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.2317776
3.53 yr (1287.5 d)
176.91778°
 16m 46.59s / day
Inclination 5.393665°
3.250132°
348.92886°
Earth MOID 0.772471 AU (115.5600 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.57294 AU (384.906 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.539
Physical characteristics
14.3

    4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism,[2] because the astronomer C.Y. Shao, a long-time participant in the minor planet program at Harvard, came from that town. His son was also named for it.

    References

    1. "4776 Luyi (1975 VD)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
    2. Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Fifth ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.

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