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5637 Gyas

asteroid
Place Asteroid Q1061352

Facts

26 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +25
Follows
5636 Jacobson[6]
Followed by
5638 Deikoon[7]
Absolute magnitude
11.5, 11.66[18][19]
Albedo
0.056
Apoapsis
5.767, 5.837887775911939
Argument of periapsis
331.51793, 333.2135198893982
Diameter
28.168
Discoverer or inventor
Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene Merle Shoemaker[2][3]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Lagrangian point
L5 Jupiter-Sun[17]
Longitude of ascending node
1.96944, 1.843292115488433
Mean anomaly
245.19861, 84.99724326904614
Minor planet group
Jupiter trojan, Trojan camp trojan asteroid[8][9]
Named after
Gyas[5]
Orbital eccentricity
0.12 (0.12–0.12, n=3)[14][15][16]
Orbital inclination
22.42659, 22.36531186392745[20][21]
Orbital period
11.72, 4331.854567921442[22][23]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[10]
Periapsis
4.5516942, 4.563236598041496
Provisional designation
1988 RF1[11]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
5.1594431, 5.200562186976718
Significant event
naming[13]
Site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory[4]
Time of discovery or invention
September 10, 1988[12]
Time of periapsis
2459977.734176345
🏷️ Also known as
en (5637) Gyas en 5637 Gyas en Gyas ar غياس 5637 de Gyas es Gyas es (5637) Giges fa سیارک 5637 fa سیارک ۵۶۳۷ fr Gyas pt Gyas ru 1988 RF1 ru (5637) 1988 RF1 ru Gyas zh 小行星5637
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/03y34k_
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20005637
Minor Planet Center body ID
5637

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🔗 Connections
Discoverer or inventor 2
Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
5638 Deikoon
Followed by (predecessor) 1
5638 Deikoon
Follows 1
5636 Jacobson
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
Jupiter trojan
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
5636 Jacobson
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Palomar Observatory
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Summary

5637 Gyas is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Carolyn S. Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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