(35618) Tartu
Asteroid (35618) Tartu |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.9997 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2376 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2871 AU - 3.7123 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.8772 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 56.3871 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 350.6502 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.20 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | April 25, 1998 |
Another name | 1998 HC 149 , 1953 VU 1 , 1979 WY 6 , 2000 QP 7 |
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. |
(35618) Tartu is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 25 April 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code was discovered 809).
(35618) Tartu was named on January 22, 2008 after the second largest city in Estonia, Tartu , which is the seat of the University of Tartu and where the historic Dorpat observatory was founded in 1811 .
See also
Web links
- (35618) Tartu in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (35618) Tartu in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (35618) Tartu according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)