(5160) Camoes
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Asteroid (5160) Camoes |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4017 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0702 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2330 AU - 2.5704 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.2915 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 129.1488 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 156.7253 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.21 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Henri Debehogne Edgar Rangel Netto |
| Date of discovery | 23rd December 1979 |
| Another name | 1979 YO , 1988 BB 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. | |
(5160) Camoes is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 December 1979 by the Belgian astronomer Henri DEBEHOGNE and his Brazilian colleague Edgar Rangel net at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões (1524–1580), who is revered as the national poet of Portugal.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Camoes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Camoes in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5160) Camoes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).