(12284) Pohl

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Asteroid
(12284) Pohl
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family Theobalda family
Major semi-axis 3.1829  AU
eccentricity 0.1961
Perihelion - aphelion 2.5586 AU - 3.8072 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 14.6765 °
Length of the ascending node 187.1330 °
Argument of the periapsis 33.8959 °
Sidereal period 5.68 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.65 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.0 likes
history
Explorer Eleanor Helin
Date of discovery March 17, 1991
Another name 1991 FP , 1998 QL 67
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.

(12284) Pohl is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on March 17, 1991 by the American astronomer Eleanor Helin at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California .

The asteroid belongs to the Theobalda family, a group of asteroids named after (778) Theobalda and less than ten million years old. The ageless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (12284) Pohl are almost identical with those of the three smaller (when one of the absolute brightness of 14.5, 15.8 and 15.6 compared to 12.6 emanates) asteroid: (101755) 1999 FN 23 , (258755) 2002 HF 3 and (355574) 2008 CR 83 .

(12284) Pohl was on 30 November 2011 after the US science fiction - writer Frederik Pohl named. The suggestion for a name came from the science fiction writer and astrophysicist David Brin , after whom an asteroid is also named: (5748) Davebrin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bojan Novaković: Portrait of Theobalda as a Young Asteroid Family . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2010, Vol. 407, Issue 3 pages 1447–1486 ( PDF , English; 4.4 MB)
  2. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)