(1834) Palach
Asteroid (1834) Palach |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 3.0250 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0695 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8149 AU - 3.2351 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.4365 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 268.1877 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 357.8347 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.26 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.13 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 17 km |
Rotation period | 3.139 h |
Absolute brightness | 11.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Luboš Kohoutek |
Date of discovery | 22nd August 1969 |
Another name | 1969 QP |
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. |
(1834) Palach is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on August 22, 1969 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf observatory ( IAU code 029) in Hamburg .
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.
(1834) Palach is named after the Czech student Jan Palach (1948–1969) who burned himself to death on January 16, 1969 on Wenceslas Square in Prague in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ (1834) Palach 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 , English)
Web links
- Asteroid Palach: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1834) Palach in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1834) Palach in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).