(14632) Flensburg
Asteroid (14632) Flensburg |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.6652 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2195 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0803 AU - 3.2502 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.5498 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 269.0314 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 139.3271 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.35 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.24 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 6.826 ± 0.215 km |
Albedo | 0.104 ± 0.017 |
Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Norbert Ehring |
Date of discovery | November 11, 1998 |
Another name | 1998 VY 33 , 1976 SF 4 , 1982 BJ 15 , 1989 SM 9 , 1996 FC 16 |
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. |
(14632) Flensburg is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on November 11, 1998 by the amateur astronomer Norbert Ehring in Bornheim ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
The asteroid with the official IAU number 14632 has a diameter of about six kilometers and circling it - along with many other part undiscovered asteroids - on an orbit between Mars and Jupiter around the sun . The celestial body was named on October 13, 2000 after the town where the explorer was born, Flensburg .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Flensburg: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14632) Flensburg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14632) Flensburg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
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