(58418) Luguhu
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Asteroid (58418) Luguhu |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Euphrosyne family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1718 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1760 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6137 AU - 3.7299 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 28.3715 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 20.7480 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 15.2812 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | October 14, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 4.23 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 9.384 km (± 0.215) |
| Albedo | 0.038 (± 0.006) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program |
| Date of discovery | January 26, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 BA 4 , 2000 RQ 6 |
| 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. | |
(58418) Luguhu is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which on 26 January 1996 as part of the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the 60/90-cm Schmidt telescope of the Xinglong Station ( IAU code 327) in the province of Hebei was discovered .
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 9.384 km (± 0.215). With an albedo of 0.038 (± 0.006) it has a dark surface.
The asteroid belongs to the Euphrosyne family, a group of asteroids named after (31) Euphrosyne . The orbit of (58418) Luguhu around the Sun is steeply inclined at more than 28 ° to the ecliptic of the solar system , which is typical for members of the Euphrosyne family.
(58418) Luguhu was named on January 22, 2008 after the Chinese Lugu Lake ( Chinese 泸沽湖 , Pinyin Lúgū Hú ).
Web links
- (58418) Luguhu in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (58418) Luguhu in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (58418) Luguhu according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)