(13586) Copenhagen
Asteroid (13586) Copenhagen |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 2.9963 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0776 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7639 AU - 3.2288 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.7404 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 187.2328 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 116.3990 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.19 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | October 9, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 TY 22 , 1998 SK 56 |
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. |
(13586) Copenhagen is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 October 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.
(13586) Copenhagen was named after Copenhagen , the capital of Denmark , on August 29, 2015 .
See also
Web links
- (13586) Copenhagen in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (13586) Copenhagen in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (13586) Copenhagen according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (13586) Copenhagen in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family . ( PDF , 26.156 MB; English)