(2236) Austrasia

Asteroid (2236) Austrasia
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Orbit type	Inner main belt
Major semi-axis	2.345 AU
eccentricity	0.218
Perihelion - aphelion	1.834 AU - 2.857 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	10.120 °
Length of the ascending node	8.227 °
Argument of the periapsis	301.090 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	22nd November 2016
Sidereal period	3.59 a
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	9.135 ± 0.423 km
Albedo	0.279 ± 0.038
Absolute brightness	12.4 mag
history
Explorer	Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
Date of discovery	March 23, 1933
Another name	1933 FX ; 1934 TE; 1941 SG ₂ ; 1959 SB; 1962 JT; 1969 EZ; 1976 GY; 1977 RV
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.

(2236) Austrasia ( 1933 FX ; 1934 TE ; 1941 SG ₂ , 1959 SB ; 1962 JT ; 1969 EZ , 1976 GY ; 1977 RV ) is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which on 23 March 1933 by German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl on the Königstuhl near Heidelberg ( IAU code 024) was discovered.

designation

(2236) Austrasia was named after Austrasia , the eastern part of the Frankish Empire , which existed from the sixth to the eighth centuries. Large parts to the east and west of the Rhine belonged to the kingdom, the capital of which was Metz in Grand Est (present-day France ). The name was proposed by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell (* 1943), who discovered one of the dates of the asteroid.

Web links

(2236) Austrasia in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(2236) Austrasia in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).

Individual evidence

^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 182 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed October 31, 2017] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named for the eastern kingdom of the Merovingian Franks from the sixth to the eighth centuries. "

[1] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 182 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed October 31, 2017] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named for the eastern kingdom of the Merovingian Franks from the sixth to the eighth centuries. "