(5162) Piedmont
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Asteroid (5162) Piemonte |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0173 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0683 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8113 AU - 3.2233 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.2363 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 68.0813 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 358.9428 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.24 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.14 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 17 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | January 18, 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 BW , 1952 JF, 1970 WF, 1978 GS 4 , 1988 FG |
| 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. | |
(5162) Piemonte is an asteroid of the main belt , the American US at 218. January 1982 by the 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 Piedmont , the second largest region in Italy in terms of area .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Piemonte: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Piemonte in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5162) Piemonte in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).