(1912) Anubis
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Asteroid (1912) Anubis |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9039 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0931 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6335 AU - 3.1743 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1573 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 76.2593 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 316.3274 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.95 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.49 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 10 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 6534 PL , 1933 DJ 2 , 1943 DD, 1968 HQ |
| 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. | |
(1912) Anubis is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
(1912) Anubis was named after the Egyptian deity Anubis , often depicted with a jackal head , who functions as the judge of the dead.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Anubis: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1912) Anubis in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1912) Anubis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (1912) Anubis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).