(4385) Alsatian
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Asteroid (4385) Alsatian |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1654 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1834 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5848 AU - 3.7460 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5766 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.63 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2534 PL, 1977 QE 2 , 1977 RZ 2 , 1987 KA 5 |
| 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. | |
(4385) Elsässer is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
The asteroid is named after the German astronomer Hans Elsässer (1929–2003).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Elsasser: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4385) Elsässer in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4385) Elsässer in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)