(5244) Amphilochus
Asteroid (5244) Amphilochus |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
Major semi-axis | 5.1674 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0276 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 5.0247 AU - 5.3101 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1577 ° |
Sidereal period | 11.75 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 13.11 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 10.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
CJ van Houten I. van Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
Another name | 1973 SQ 1 , 1989 AO 2 |
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. |
(5244) Amphilochus is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit . (5244) Amphilochus was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the team CJ van Houten , I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of Amphilochus , king of Argos and seer of the Greeks in the Trojan War .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Amphilochos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Amphilochos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5244) Amphilochos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).