(231278) Kárpáti
Asteroid (231278) Kárpáti |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
Major semi-axis | 2.7067 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1715 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2426 AU - 3.1708 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.6583 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 324.7269 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 104.9462 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | October 14, 2018 |
Sidereal period | 4.45 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 16.7 mag |
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Explorer | Krisztián Sárneczky |
Date of discovery | January 25, 2006 |
Another name | 2006 BY 26 |
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. |
(231278) Kárpáti is an asteroid of the central main belt , which was discovered on January 25, 2006 by the Hungarian amateur astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky at the Piszkéstető Observatory ( IAU code 561) in the northern Hungarian Mátra Mountains on behalf of the Budapest Konkoly Observatory .
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong. The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (231278) Kárpáti are almost identical to those of three other asteroids: (19188) Dittebesard , 2012 SM 5 and 2013 YJ 68 .
The asteroid was named on January 16, 2014 after the Hungarian saber fencer Rudolf Kárpáti (1920–1999). Kárpáti was a six-time Olympic champion and a seven-time world champion .
See also
Web links
- (231278) Kárpáti in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (231278) Kárpáti in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (231278) Kárpáti according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)