(39427) Charlottebrontë
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Asteroid (39427) Charlottebrontë |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Schubart family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.9749 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1876 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.2292 AU - 4.7205 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8746 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 68.5669 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 243.0276 ° |
| Sidereal period | 7.92 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 14.92 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 25, 1973 |
| Another name | 3360 T-2 , 1997 TF 28 , 1998 XV 8 , 2001 DF 32 |
| 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. | |
(39427) Charlottebrontë is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on September 25, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the Second Trojan Survey of 1973, during which Tom Gehrels scanned 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 .
(39427) Charlottebrontë was named on February 19, 2006 after the British writer Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), who achieved her literary breakthrough with the 1847 novel Jane Eyre .
See also
Web links
- (39427) Charlottebrontë in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (39427) Charlottebrontë in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (39427) Charlottebrontë according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miroslav Brož , David Vokrouhlický : Asteroid families in the first order resonances with Jupiter . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2008 (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)