(2439) Ulugbek
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Asteroid (2439) Ulugbek |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1350 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1572 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6421 AU - 3.6279 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.2830 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 114.3926 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 334.4710 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.84 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 20.41 ± 1.0 km |
| Albedo | 0.1065 |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | NS Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | August 21, 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 QX 2 , 1952 DT 2 , 1955 UD, 1972 TC 4 , 1974 CM 1 , 1979 BE, 1980 GN |
| 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. | |
(2439) Ulugbek is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on August 21, 1977 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(2439) Ulugbek was named after the Timurid prince and astronomer Ulugh Beg (1394–1449) who built the Gurchani Zidsch observatory in 1428 and created a Zidsch-i-Sultani star catalog between 1420 and 1437 with the position information of 1018 and 992 stars let.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (2439) Ulugbek in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Ulugbek: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2439) Ulugbek in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2439) Ulugbek in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).