(13031) Durance
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Asteroid (13031) Durance |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5986 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1323 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2548 AU - 2.9425 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2596 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 157.2070 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 52.8138 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.19 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 SN 4 , 1979 HH 2 , 1996 KN 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. | |
(13031) Durance is an asteroid of the main belt , the September 26, 1989 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 August 19, 2008 after the French river Durance , whose upper course forms the border between the Cottian Alps in the east and the Dauphiné Alps in the west and which flows into the Rhone just south of Avignon as a left tributary .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Durance: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13031) Durance in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13031) Durance in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).