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976 Benjamina
Name
Name Benjamina
Designation 1922 LU
Discovery
Discoverer B. Jekhovsky
Discovery date March 27, 1922
Discovery site Algiers
Orbital elements
Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.096
Semimajor axis (a) 3.207 AU
Perihelion (q) 2.900 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.514 AU
Orbital period (P) 5.743 a
Inclination (i) 7.654°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 244.836°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 311.336°
Mean anomaly (M) 203.343°

976 Benjamina is a minor planet orbiting Sun. Benjamin Jekhowsky (Вениамин Павлович Жеховский) (1881 – after 1953) was a Russian-French astronomer, born in Warsaw (at the time, Poland was part of the Russian empire). ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Algiers Algiers (French Alger, (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر ) El-Jezair, i. ... In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the number of days that have elapsed since 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar . ... In astrodynamics, under standard assumptions any orbit must be of conic section shape. ... 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. ... A Julian year is the length of an average year in the Julian calendar, 365. ... 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. ... The Longitude of the ascending node () is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. ... The argument of the perihelion is one of the orbital elements describing the orbit of a planet. ... In the study of orbital dynamics the mean anomaly is a measure of time, specific to the orbiting body p, which is a multiple of 2π radians at and only at periapsis. ... Jump to: navigation, search Minor planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major... Jump to: navigation, search The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. ...


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RASNZ Circular May 2003 (774 words)
HIP 88816, magnitude 5.7, will be occulted by (976) Benjamina on 2003 July 19.
Stars to magnitude 8.5 are shown with those brighter than magnitude 6 labelled.
At the occultation the image magnitude will change by 8.3 to 14.0, the magnitude of Benjamina.
RASNZ Occultation Section - Benjamina Occultation Update (557 words)
OCCULTATION BY (976) BENJAMINA - 2003 JUL 19
UPDATE: 2003 JUL 04, 21:21 UT On 2003 Jul 19 UT, the 80 km diameter asteroid (976) Benjamina will occult a 5.7 mag star in the constellation Sagittarius for observers along a path across Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and SE Australia.
Very detailed maps have been kindly prepared by Steve Preston.
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