(5018) Tenmu
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Asteroid (5018) Tenmu |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1590 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0591 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0314 AU - 2.2865 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.4082 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 30.7144 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 352.7635 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.17 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.27 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Hiroki Kōsai Kiichirō Furukawa |
| Date of discovery | 19th February 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 DY 8 , 1978 NJ 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. | |
(5018) Tenmu is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 February 1977 by the Japanese astronomer Hiroki Kosai and Kiichiro Furukawa at the Kiso Observatory ( IAU code 381) in Kiso at Mount Ontake was discovered.
He was named after Temmu (~ 631-686), the 40th Tennō , who in 672 in the Jinshin Civil War tore the imperial dignity to himself and later as emperor reformed the legal system based on the model of the Chinese system.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tenmu: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tenmu in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5018) Tenmu in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).