(4513) Louvre

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Asteroid
(4513) Louvre
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eos family
Major semi-axis 3.0247  AU
eccentricity 0.0766
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7929 AU - 3.2565 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 9.9274 °
Length of the ascending node 208.9810 °
Argument of the periapsis 205.5319 °
Sidereal period 5.26 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.10 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter approx. 13 km
Rotation period 2.937 h
Absolute brightness 12.0 mag
history
Explorer TM Smirnova
Date of discovery August 30, 1971
Another name 1971 QW 1 , 1989 CS 3
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.

(4513) Louvre is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on August 30, 1971 by the Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).

The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.

(4513) Louvre was named after the Louvre , the world-famous former palace of the French kings, which now houses several museums .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The family membership of (4513) Louvre in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
  2. David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)