(11039) Raynal

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Asteroid
(11039) Raynal
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)