- 22740 Rayleigh
Infobox Planet
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name = Rayleigh
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discovery_ref =
discoverer =E. W. Elst
discovery_site =European Southern Observatory
discovered =September 20 ,1998
designations = yes
mp_name = 22740
alt_names = 1998 SX146
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orbit_ref =
epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 3.9329943
perihelion = 2.5608893
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.2112919
period = 2137.0277636
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inclination = 3.10958
asc_node = 169.11979
mean_anomaly = 312.48513
arg_peri = 113.65041
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abs_magnitude = 13.222740 Rayleigh (1998 SX146) is a
Outer Main-belt Asteroid discovered onSeptember 20 ,1998 byE. W. Elst at theEuropean Southern Observatory .The asteroid was named in honour of the English physicist
John William Rayleigh (1842–1919).External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=22740+Rayleigh JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 22740 Rayleigh]
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