(5088) Tancredi
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Asteroid (5088) Tancredi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1074 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1576 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6178 AU - 3.5971 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5851 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 5.7485 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 85.2702 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.48 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.89 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.0591 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist |
| Date of discovery | 22nd August 1979 |
| Another name | 1979 QZ 1 , 1982 DP 6 , 1985 RS 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. | |
(5088) Tancredi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 August 1979 by the Swedish astronomer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code of 809) European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(5088) Tancredi was named after the Uruguayan astronomer Gonzalo Tancredi (* 1963), who mainly deals with the evolution of comets and their interactions with asteroids.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tancredi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tancredi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5088) Tancredi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (5088) Tancredi in the AstDyS-2 database (English)