(5264) Telephus
Asteroid (5264) Telephus |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
Major semi-axis | 5.2047 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1125 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 4.6189 AU - 5.7905 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 33.5756 ° |
Sidereal period | 11.88 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 13.05 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 73.26 km |
Albedo | 0.0522 |
Rotation period | 9.518 h |
Absolute brightness | 9.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer |
CS Shoemaker, E. M. Shoemaker |
Date of discovery | May 17, 1991 |
Another name | 1991 KC, 1965 AO |
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. |
(5264) Telephus 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 .
(5264) Telephus was discovered on May 17, 1991 by the American astronomers Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of Telephos , a son of Heracles and the eye who showed the Greeks the way to Troy .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Telephus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Telephus in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5264) Telephus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).