3563 Canterbury

Name
Name	Canterbury
Designation	1985 FE
Discovery
Discoverers	Alan C. Gilmore Alan C. Gilmore Alan Charles Gilmore is a New Zealand astronomer.He has discovered some forty asteroids, each one in collaboration with Pamela M. Kilmartin; both of them are also active "nova-" and "comet-hunters". He works at Mount John University Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of...  and Pamela M. Kilmartin Pamela M. Kilmartin Pamela M. Kilmartin is a New Zealand astronomer.She has discovered some forty asteroids, each one in collaboration with Alan C. Gilmore; both of them are also active comet-hunters.She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand ....
Discovery date	March 23, 1985
Orbital elements
Epoch Epoch (astronomy) In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as celestial coordinates, or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, where these are subject to perturbations and vary with time...  October 27, 2007 (JDCT Julian day Julian day is used in the Julian date system of time measurement for scientific use by the astronomy community, presenting the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon...  2454400.5)
Eccentricity (e)	0.1763592
Semimajor axis (a)	2.7944137 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
Perihelion (q)	2.3015931 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
Aphelion (Q)	3.2872343 AU Astronomical unit An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
Orbital period Orbital period The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...  (P)	4.67 a Julian year (astronomy) In astronomy, a Julian year is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86 400 SI seconds each, totaling 31 557 600 seconds. The Julian year is the average length of the year in the Julian calendar used in Western societies in previous centuries, and for which the unit is...
Inclination Inclination Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction.-Orbits:The inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit...  (i)	6.94642°
Longitude of the ascending node Longitude of the ascending node The longitude of the ascending node is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. It is the angle from a reference direction, called the origin of longitude, to the direction of the ascending node, measured in a reference plane...  (Ω)	268.06744°
Argument of Perihelion (ω)	346.26888°
Mean anomaly Mean anomaly In celestial mechanics, the mean anomaly is a parameter relating position and time for a body moving in a Kepler orbit. It is based on the fact that equal areas are swept at the focus in equal intervals of time....  (M)	284.82175°

3563 Canterbury is a main belt asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 with a perihelion of 2.6828106 AU

Astronomical unit

An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....

. It has an eccentricity of 0.1763592 and an orbital period

Orbital period

The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...

 of 1706.2179036 days (4.67 years).

Canterbury has an average orbital speed

Orbital speed

The orbital speed of a body, generally a planet, a natural satellite, an artificial satellite, or a multiple star, is the speed at which it orbits around the barycenter of a system, usually around a more massive body...

 of 17.81462866 km/s and an inclination

Inclination

Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction.-Orbits:The inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit...

 of 6.94642°.

This asteroid was discovered on March 23, 1985 by Alan C. Gilmore

Alan C. Gilmore

Alan Charles Gilmore is a New Zealand astronomer.He has discovered some forty asteroids, each one in collaboration with Pamela M. Kilmartin; both of them are also active "nova-" and "comet-hunters". He works at Mount John University Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of...

 and Pamela M. Kilmartin

Pamela M. Kilmartin

Pamela M. Kilmartin is a New Zealand astronomer.She has discovered some forty asteroids, each one in collaboration with Alan C. Gilmore; both of them are also active comet-hunters.She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand ....

, both from the University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...

in New Zealand.