(5230) Asahina
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Asteroid (5230) Asahina |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3994 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.3731 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.5040 AU - 3.2947 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 20.6978 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.22 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 89.3 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: S. |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jeff T. Alu |
| Date of discovery | March 10, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 EF, 1983 VX |
| 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. | |
(5230) Asahina is a Mars orbit asteroid of the main belt which was discovered on March 10, 1988 by the American amateur astronomer Jeff T. Alu at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675).
The asteroid was named after the Japanese conductor and Bruckner interpreter Takashi Asahina , who founded the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in 1947 and directed it until his death in 2001.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Asahina: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Asahina in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5230) Asahina in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).