(23608) Alpiapuans
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Asteroid (23608) Alpiapuane |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5549 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1312 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2196 AU - 2.8902 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.5105 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 153.4334 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 95.1330 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.08 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Maura Tombelli Ulisse Munari |
| Date of discovery | January 15, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 AC 4 , 1988 CU 5 , 1989 ON, 2000 CC 104 |
| 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. | |
(23608) Alpiapuane is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 15, 1996 by the Italian astronomers Maura Tombelli and Ulisse Munari at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago Cima Ekar ( IAU code 098). The asteroid was already observed in February 1988 under the provisional designation 1988 CU 5 at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
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.
(23608) Alpiapuane was named on May 27, 2010 after the Apuan Alps in the Tuscany region, where the famous Carrara marble comes from.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Alpiapuane: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (23608) Alpiapuane in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (23608) Alpiapuane in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (23608) Alpiapuane at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)