(39405) Mosigkau

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Asteroid
(39405) Mosigkau
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family Schubart family
Major semi-axis 3.9590  AU
eccentricity 0.2218
Perihelion - aphelion 3.0808 AU - 4.8371 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.7519 °
Length of the ascending node 246.6435 °
Argument of the periapsis 66.9471 °
Sidereal period 7.88 a
Mean orbital velocity 14.95 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 4.99 h
Absolute brightness 13.2 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery March 25, 1971
Another name 1063 T-1 , 1997 RQ, 1998 UK 10 , 1999 YV 25
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.

(39405) Mosigkau is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on March 25, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the first Trojan survey in 1971, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .

The asteroid is a member of the Schubart family, a group of asteroids that was probably formed by collision 1.7 (± 0.7) billion years ago and orbits the Sun in an orbital resonance of 3: 2 with the planet Jupiter . This group is named after the asteroid (1911) Schubart .

(39405) Mosigkau was on 21 July 2005 after built from 1752 to 1757 Rococo - Mosigkau named the park to the UNESCO World Heritage Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz belongs.

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Individual evidence

  1. Miroslav Brož , David Vokrouhlický : Asteroid families in the first order resonances with Jupiter . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2008 (English)
  2. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)