(3808) Temple
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Asteroid (3808) temple |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3074 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1486 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9646 AU - 2.6502 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.3308 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.51 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.61 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | March 24, 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 FQ 2 , 1975 EL 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. | |
(3808) Tempel is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 24, 1982 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The asteroid was named after the German astronomer and lithographer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (1821–1889), who discovered the comets Tempel-Tuttle and Tempel 1 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Temple: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3808) Temple in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3808) Temple in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).