(5054) wedge
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Asteroid (5054) wedge |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4536 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1475 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0916 AU - 2.8155 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.4648 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 355.1117 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.84 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.00 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | January 12, 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 AO 2 , 1988 TA 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. | |
(5054) Wedge is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 January 1986 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the German - American mineralogist Klaus Keil (* 1934), who headed the NASA cosmochemistry department between 1963 and 1968 and contributed to a better understanding of the composition of asteroids through his spectral analyzes of almost all types of meteorites .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Wedge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Wedge in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5054) Wedge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).