(58896) locksmith
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Asteroid (58896) locksmith |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7183 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1588 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2865 AU - 3.1500 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.9731 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 235.2966 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 23.4690 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | July 24, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 3.39 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Starkenburg observatory |
| Date of discovery | May 15, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 4 |
| 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. | |
(58896) Schlosser is an asteroid located in the main central belt . It was discovered on May 15, 1998 at the Starkenburg observatory in Heppenheim ( IAU code 611). When discovered, the asteroid had an apparent magnitude of 18 mag.
Mean solar distance ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of (58896) Schlosser roughly correspond to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids of the main belt belong.
The asteroid was named after the German astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser on March 30, 2010 .
See also
Web links
- (58896) Locksmith in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (58896) Schlosser 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 by (58896) Schlosser according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)