(3635) Kreutz
Asteroid (3635) Kreutz |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 1.7946 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0845 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.6430 AU - 1.9461 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 19.2233 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 235.3545 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 249.1607 ° |
Sidereal period | 2.40 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 22.23 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 280 h |
Absolute brightness | 14.7 mag |
Spectral class | SMASSII S |
history | |
Explorer | L. Kohoutek |
Date of discovery | November 21, 1981 |
Another name | 1981 WO 1 |
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. |
(3635) Kreutz is an asteroid grazing the orbit of Mars , which was discovered on November 21, 1981 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Calar Alto Observatory ( IAU code 493) in the Spanish province of Almería .
The asteroid was named on November 26, 2004 after the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz (1854–1907), the namesake of the Kreutz group of comets .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kreutz: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3635) Kreutz in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3635) Kreutz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).