(5837) Hedin
Asteroid (5837) Hedin |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1262 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1422 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6815 AU - 3.5708 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1823 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 104.9987 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 155.1223 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.82 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 7.7256 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 2548 PL , 1986 EU 5 |
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. |
(5837) Hedin is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(5837) Hedin was named after the Swedish geographer , topographer , explorer , photographer and travel writer Sven Hedin (1865–1952), who laid the foundations for an accurate map of the area and made a multitude of significant discoveries with his records of four expeditions to Central Asia made.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (5837) Hedin in the database AstDyS-2 (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Hedin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hedin in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5837) Hedin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).