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2069 Hubble
Orbital characteristics 1
Orbit type Main belt
Semimajor axis 3.166 AU
Perihelion distance 2.608 AU
Aphelion distance 3.724 AU
Orbital period 5.63 years
Inclination 9.13°
Eccentricity 0.176
Physical characteristics 1
Diameter 34.5 km
Abs. magnitude 11.10
Albedo 4 0.054
History 2
Designation 1955 FT
Discoverer Indiana University, 1955

2069 Hubble is a dark-colored main belt asteroid. In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, whilst under the influence of a source of centripetal force, such as gravity. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... In geometry, the semi-major axis (also semimajor axis) a applies to ellipses and hyperbolas. ... The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... Jump to: navigation, search A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... Inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit and is the angular distance of the orbital plane from the plane of the reference (usually planets equator or the ecliptic), stated in degrees. ... In astrodynamics, under standard assumptions any orbit must be of conic section shape. ... For the geometric term, see diameter. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Jump to: navigation, search In astronomy, absolute magnitude is the apparent magnitude, m, an object would have if it were at a standardized distance away. ... The albedo is a measure of reflectivity of a surface or body. ... Jump to: navigation, search Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... Jump to: navigation, search An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...


It was discovered by astronomers at Indiana University (no specific discoverer was credited) on March 29, 1955. Jump to: navigation, search Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The asteroid was named after the famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble. An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Jump to: navigation, search Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer, noted for his discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and the cosmic red shift. ...

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Edwin (Powell) Hubble - Biography, Discoveries, Nobel Prize, Honors (916 words)
Hubble's observations in 1923–1924 with the Hooker Telescope established beyond doubt that the fuzzy "nebulae" seen earlier with less sensitive telescopes were not part of our galaxy, as had been thought, but were galaxies themselves, outside the Milky Way.
In 1929 Hubble and Humason formulated the empirical Redshift Distance Law of galaxies, nowadays termed simply Hubble's law, which, if the redshift is interpreted as a measure of recession speed, is consistent with the solutions of Einstein’s equations of general relativity for a homogeneous, isotropic expanding space.
Hubble spent much of the later part of his career attempting to have astronomy considered an area of physics, instead of being its own science.
Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (963 words)
Edwin Hubble was one of the first to argue that the red shift of distant galaxies is due to the Doppler effect induced by the expansion of the universe.
Hubble was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1898.
Hubble E.P., The Realm of the Nebulae (New Haven, 1936).
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