(13032) Tarn
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Asteroid (13032) camouflage |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7252 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0426 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6092 AU - 2.8412 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.8706 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 172.0729 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 277.4161 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.50 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | October 7, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 TU 3 , 1998 SK 129 |
| 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. | |
(13032) Tarn is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 7 October 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 Tarn , which rises on the high plateau of Mont Lozère in the Cevennes and flows into the Garonne as a right tributary below Moissac .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tarn: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13032) Tarn in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13032) Tarn in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).