(11039) Raynal
Asteroid (11039) Raynal |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8848 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0675 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6902 AU - 3.0795 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.7796 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 339.4300 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 7.8437 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.90 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.53 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | April 3, 1989 |
Another name | 1989 GH 2 , 1998 EF 15 , 1999 JS 28 |
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. |
(11039) Raynal is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 3, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
(11039) Raynal was named on September 28, 1999 after the French writer Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713–1796), whose History of Two Indies , published in 1770, was one of the most widely read writings of the Late Enlightenment .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Raynal: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11039) Raynal in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11039) Raynal in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)