(12295) Tasso
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Asteroid (12295) Tasso |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4149 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2104 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9068 AU - 2.9230 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2985 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 110.8295 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 294.8540 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.75 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.16 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd August 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 PE 3 , 1980 TL 1 , 1989 AE 2 , 1989 AK 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. | |
(12295) Tasso is an asteroid of the main belt , the August 2, 1991 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 belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
(12295) Tasso was named on March 6, 2004 after the Italian poet of the 16th century Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), who through his work La Gerusalemme liberata (the liberated Jerusalem , also translated into German as Gottfried von Bulljon ) , got known.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tasso: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (12295) Tasso in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (12295) Tasso 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)