(10866) Peru
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Asteroid (10866) Peru |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4306 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1232 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1311 AU - 2.7301 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4770 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 311.4074 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 228.7523 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.79 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.11 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 14, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 NB 4 , 1976 GE, 1978 VL 1 , 1991 CB 2 |
| 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. | |
(10866) Peru is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on July 14, 1996 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). There had already been several unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid: on April 1, 1976 with the provisional designation 1976 GE at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj , on November 1, 1978 (1978 VL 1 ) at the French Observatoire de Calern and in February 1991 (1991 CB 2 ) at the French Observatoire de Haute-Provence .
Mean distance from the sun ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid lie within the respective limit values that are defined for the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called Hertha family, according to (135) Hertha ).
(10866) Peru was named on May 9, 2001 after the South American country Peru .
Web links
- (10866) Peru in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10866) Peru in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10866) Peru according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (10866) Peru at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)