100417 Philipglass
asteroid
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Summary
100417 Philipglass is an asteroid[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Erich Meyer[2]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Linz[3]
- Named after: Philip Glass[4]
- Follows: 100416 Syang[5]
- Followed by: (100418) 1996 EF9[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1996 EC[9], 2002 NX31[10], 2003 UB147[11], 2003 US247[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 7, 1996[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.14[15], 0.1438005556564223[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 15.9[17], 15.95[18]
- Orbital inclination: 5.4 degree[19], 5.357297448042327 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1527.750407410437 day[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 131.3 degree[22], 131.0914123810713 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.595987842341943 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 2.969292336548032 astronomical unit[25]