(5596) Morbidelli
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Asteroid Morbidelli |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1750 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0838 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9929 AU - 2.3572 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2355 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 261.8089 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 220.5593 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.21 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.19 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.4000 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Henry E. Holt |
| Date of discovery | August 7, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 PQ 10 , 1938 AB, 1981 NF, 1982 YP 4 , 1985 UO 1 , 1988 VV 7 |
| 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. | |
(5596) Morbidelli is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 7 August 1991 by the American US astronomers Henry E. Holt at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in January 1938 under the provisional designation 1938 AB at the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest .
It was named in honor of the Italian astronomer and planetologist Alessandro Morbidelli (* 1966).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Morbidelli: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Morbidelli in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5596) Morbidelli in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (5596) Morbidelli on minorplanetcenter.net (English)