1997 Leverrier

Tags: Planet.

1997 Leverrier is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program and was named after Urbain Le Verrier the French mathematician who simultaneously with John Couch Adams predicted the existence and position of the planet Neptune. The name was requested by British astronomer Brian G. Marsden.

apoapsis (km)

3.98652e+11

average speed (km/s)

71352.0

orbital period (μ)

1.03642e+08

periapsis (km)

2.62404e+11

temperature (K)

187.0

absolute magnitude

13.4

albedo

0.1

discovery date

1963-09-14

discoverer

Indiana Asteroid Program

epoch

June 14 2006 (JD 2453900.5)

escape velocity (kmh)

12.96

former name

; 1973 UF, 1940 SF; ;, 1953 QB; 1963 RC;