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4796 Lewis

asteroid
Place asteroid Q432504

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +23
Follows
4795 Kihara[4]
Followed by
4797 Ako[5]
Absolute magnitude
13.6, 13.69[18][19]
Apoapsis
2.778, 2.778664914558231
Argument of periapsis
35.75748, 35.63987283801919
Asteroid spectral type
V-type asteroid[13]
Discoverer or inventor
Eleanor F. Helin[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
296.37522, 296.2827393215547
Mean anomaly
39.13862, 333.8642954456558
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.18 (0.18–0.18, n=3)[15][16][17]
Orbital inclination
2.27391, 2.273358521368723[20][21]
Orbital period
3.61, 1320.149784173127[22][23]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[7]
Periapsis
1.9326163, 1.931612838423713
Provisional designation
1974 HJ1, 1982 OH, 1986 TU12, 1989 LU[8][9][10][11]
Rotation period
3.5086
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.3551531, 2.355138876490972
Significant event
naming[14]
Site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
June 3, 1989[12]
Time of periapsis
2461096.341790907
🏷️ Also known as
en Lewis en 4796 Lewis de (4796) Lewis fa سیارک ۴۷۹۶ ru (4796) 1989 LU ru (4796) Lewis ru (4796) Льюис ru Lewis ru Льюис ru 1989 LU ru 1974 HJ1 ru 1982 OH ru 1986 TU12 uk 4796 Льюїс zh 小行星4796
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/03y744q
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20004796
Minor Planet Center body ID
4796

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Asteroid spectral type 1
V-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
Eleanor F. Helin
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Follows 1
4795 Kihara
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
4795 Kihara
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Palomar Observatory
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Summary

4796 Lewis is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Eleanor F. Helin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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