(11051) Racine
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Asteroid (11051) Racine |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0327 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0649 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8360 AU - 3.2294 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.4293 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 199.4512 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 167.3064 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.28 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.10 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.126 ± 0.193 km |
| Albedo | 0.166 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 15, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VH 12 , 1979 UT 3 , 1990 WV 9 , 1998 FK 68 |
| 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. | |
(11051) Racine is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 November 1990 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 was named on September 28, 1999 after the French playwright Jean Racine (1639–1699), who in France is one of the most important authors of French classical music and the greatest tragedy author alongside or even before Pierre Corneille .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Racine: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11051) Racine in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11051) Racine in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).