(12341) Calevoet
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Asteroid (12341) Calevoet |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3743 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2232 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8443 AU - 2.9044 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1784 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 118.0717 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 267.9832 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 9th November 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 3.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.33 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | January 27, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 BN 4 , 1995 SM 4 |
| 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. | |
(12341) Calevoet is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on July 8, 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Schmidt telescope of the French Observatoire de Calern near Grasse ( IAU code 010).
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ). The ageless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (12341) Calevoet are almost identical with those of the two smaller, when one of the absolute brightness starting from 17.4 and 17.8 versus 14.9, asteroid (200009) 2007 LW 4 and ( 388103) 2005 UL 305 .
(12341) Calevoet was named on November 20, 2002 after Calevoet, a south-western part of the Belgian municipality of Uccle / Ukkel .
See also
Web links
- (12341) Calevoet in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (12341) Calevoet in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (12341) Calevoet according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)