(2114) Wallenquist
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Asteroid (2114) Wallenquist |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1991 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1417 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7459 AU - 3.6523 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5561 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 1.5590 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 216.8318 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.66 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 27.67 km |
| Albedo | 0.0838 |
| Rotation period | 5.510 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist |
| Date of discovery | April 19, 1976 |
| Another name | 1976 HA , 1930 DG, 1942 LD, 1953 GZ, 1964 FA, 1970 EO 3 , 1970 EZ 2 |
| 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. | |
(2114) Wallenquist is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 April 1976 by the Swedish astronomer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist on Mount Stromlo Observatory ( IAU code 414) on the 770-meter-high Mount Stromlo , about eleven kilometers west of the center of Australian capital Canberra was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
The celestial body was named in 1979 after the Swedish astronomer Åke Wallenquist (1904-1994), whose main research area were open star clusters and their properties.
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- Asteroid Wallenquist: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2114) Wallenquist in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2114) Wallenquist in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).