02-17-2014 Astronomy anniversaries and new asteroids

Asteroid discoveries (it seems some astronomer was very active tonight.):

2014 CK14

Discoverer: unknown

Type: Hungaria asteroid

Semimajor axis: 1.9 AU

Perihelion: 1.66 AU

Aphelion: 2.14 AU

Eccentricity: 0.126

Period: 2.62 Years

Inclination: 18.927 degrees

2014 CL14

Discoverer: unknown

Type: Hungaria asteroid

Semimajor axis: 1.845 AU

Perihelion: 1.703 AU

Aphelion: 1.987 AU

Eccentricity: 0.077

Period: 2.51 Years

Inclination: 20.306 degrees

2014 CM14

Discoverer: unknown

Type: Hungaria asteroid

Semimajor axis: 1.91 AU

Perihelion: 1.589 AU

Aphelion: 2.23 AU

Eccentricity: 0.168

Period: 2.64 Years

Inclination: 23.953 degrees

2014 CN14
Discoverer: unknown
Type: Hungaria asteroid
Semimajor axis: 1.906 AU
Perihelion: 1.672 AU
Aphelion: 2.14 AU
Eccentricity: 0.123
Period: 2.63 Years
Inclination: 26.228 degrees

2014 CO14
Discoverer: unknown
Type: Main Belt asteroid
Semimajor axis: 1.775 AU
Perihelion: 1.685 AU
Aphelion: 1.865 AU
Eccentricity: 0.051
Period: 2.36 Years
Inclination: 24.49 degrees

2014 CP14
Discoverer: unknown
Type: Hungaria asteroid
Semimajor axis: 1.881 AU
Perihelion: 1.748 AU
Aphelion: 2.014 AU
Eccentricity: 0.071
Period: 2.58 Years
Inclination: 23.735 degrees

2014 CQ14
Discoverer: unknown
Type: Mars-crosser asteroid
Semimajor axis: 2.384 AU
Perihelion: 1.573 AU
Aphelion: 3.194 AU
Eccentricity: 0.34
Period: 3.68 Years
Inclination: 25.295 degrees

2014 CR14
Discoverer: unknown
Type: Mars-crosser asteroid
Semimajor axis: 2.466 AU
Perihelion: 1.652 AU
Aphelion: 3.28 AU
Eccentricity: 0.33
Period: 3.87 Years
Inclination: 27.165 degrees

Today's astronomy anniversaries:

• Discoveries:
• None*
• Events:
• 1965 (49 years ago)- Ranger 8 launches to go to the Moon and take pictures of the Sea of Tranquility to find a suitable landing site for the Apollo missions.
• 1996 (18 years ago)- NEAR Shoemaker launches to go to asteroid 433 Eros.
• Births:
• None
• Deaths:
• 1600 (414 years ago)- Giordano Bruno, an Italian friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astronomer, who followed the Copernician theory, and went as far as to say that there were many other stars, and that the Sun was just one of them, and that there are many planets orbiting those stars, which have other, extraterrestrial beings living on them- dies of being burned at the stake for heresy. :P

*Sorry about missing yesterday's article. My computer was being slow and I spent the entire afternoon running a complete bug scan. I'll try to write the article in full today.

            Coming up later today:

See yesterday's 'coming up later'.