(13475) Orestes
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Asteroid (13475) Orestes |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1759 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0750 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.7876 AU - 5.5642 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.9420 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.78 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.08 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 11.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | 19th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 SX, 1996 RO 14 |
| 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. | |
(13475) Orestes is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit .
(13475) Orestes was discovered on September 19, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675). It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological Greek hero Orestes , son of King Agamemnon and his wife Clytaimnestra . At the request of his sister Elektra, he killed his mother and her lover Aigisthus in revenge for the murder of his father and was persecuted by the Erinyes for this until he was acquitted on the Areopagus in Athens .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Orestes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13475) Orestes in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13475) Orestes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).