(11193) Merida
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Asteroid (11193) Merida |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1980 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1503 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7173 AU - 3.6787 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4238 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.62 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Orlando A. Naranjo |
| Date of discovery | December 11, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 XN 96 , 1982 DU 5 , 1982 HN 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. | |
(11193) Mérida is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 11, 1998 by the Venezuelan astronomer Orlando A. Naranjo at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Llano del Hato ( IAU code 303) near Mérida .
The asteroid was named after Mérida, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Mérida .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mérida: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11193) Mérida in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11193) Mérida in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).