(4512) Sinuhe
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Asteroid (4512) Sinuhe |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7690 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2049 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2016 AU - 3.3363 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.3117 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 119.5511 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 356.9780 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.61 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.91 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 11 km |
| Rotation period | 18.00 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| Spectral class | Sat |
| history | |
| Explorer | Yrjö Väisälä |
| Date of discovery | January 20, 1939 |
| Another name | 1939 BM, 1939 CE 1 , 1979 WR 7 , 1987 OE 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. | |
(4512) Sinuhe is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 20 January 1939 by the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku was discovered.
The name of the asteroid is based on the title character from the work Sinuhe the Egyptians by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Sinuhe: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4512) Sinuhe in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4512) Sinuhe in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).