(39429) Annebrontë
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Asteroid (39429) Annebrontë |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4308 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1223 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1334 AU - 2.7282 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.2957 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 171.5930 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 14.5237 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.79 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.10 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 4223 T-2 , 1998 EV 6 |
| 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. | |
(39429) Annebrontë is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 29, 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 .
(39429) Annebrontë was named on February 19, 2006 after the British writer Anne Brontë (1820-1849), the youngest of the Brontë sisters, who is best known for her novel The Mistress of Wildfell Hall (1848).
See also
Web links
- (39429) Annebrontë in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (39429) Annebrontë in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (39429) Annebrontë according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)