(48435) Jaspers
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Asteroid (48435) Jaspers |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7456 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1471 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3417 AU - 3.1494 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.1031 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 49.8611 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 349.4835 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 1st February 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 4.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5,956 ± 0.253 km |
| Albedo | 0.041 ± 0.011 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | October 23, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 UR 7 , 1998 UA 16 , 2000 ET 180 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(48435) Jaspers is an asteroid of the middle main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen on October 23, 1989 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 5,956 ± 0.253 km, the albedo to be 0.041 ± 0.011.
The orbit of the asteroid was secured in 2002 so that numbering could be assigned. (48435) Jaspers was named after the German philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen . The asteroid was named on May 1, 2003.
Web links
- (48435) Jaspers in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (48435) Jaspers in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (48435) Jaspers according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small planets discovered on Tautenburger Platten on the website of Freimut Börngen