(5033) Mistral
Asteroid (5033) Mistral |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2,9200 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0536 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7634 AU - 3.0766 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5108 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.99 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.42 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 9 km |
Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | August 15, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 PF, 1975 RO 2 , 1979 HT, 1981 UF 18 , 1983 CP 1 , 1988 FH 1 , 1990 RW 9 , 1991 UU 2 |
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. |
(5033) Mistral is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 August 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at de Observatoire Haute-Provence ( IAU code was discovered 511) in southeastern France.
The asteroid was named after the French poet and linguist Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mistral: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Mistral in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5033) Mistral in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).