(10445) Coster
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Asteroid (10445) Coster |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4712 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1526 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0940 AU - 2.8483 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7963 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 102.2145 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 150.8926 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.88 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.95 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 4090 T-2 , 1996 PG 6 |
| 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. | |
(10445) Coster is an asteroid located in the Main Belt . It was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California .
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The asteroid was named on July 5, 2001 after the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster (1889–1950), who discovered the element hafnium in 1923 together with George de Hevesy .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Coster: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10445) Coster in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (10445) Coster in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).