(59001) Senftenberg
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Asteroid (59001) Senftenberg |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Asteroid family | Innes family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.578 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.221 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.008 AU - 3.147 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 41.8 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 317 ° |
| Sidereal period | 1512 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jana Tichá and Miloš Tichý |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 SZ 35 |
| 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. | |
(59001) Senftenberg is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 26, 1998 by the Czech astronomers Jana Tichá and Miloš Tichý at the Kleť Observatory ( IAU code 046) near Český Krumlov .
The asteroid belongs to the Innes family, an asteroid family named after (1658) Innes .
It was named on July 21, 2005 after the town of Senftenberg in Bohemia (today: Žamberk ), in which two comets were discovered by Theodor Brorsen in 1851 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (59001) Senftenberg in the database AstDyS-2 (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Senftenberg: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Senftenberg in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (59001) Senftenberg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).