(6216) San Jose
Asteroid (6216) San Jose |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.7533 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1022 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4719 AU - 3.0346 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7717 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 30.4892 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 27.6040 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.57 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.94 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 8.033 ± 0.149 km |
Albedo | 0.208 ± 0.024 |
Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
history | |
Explorer | SJ bus |
Date of discovery | September 30, 1975 |
Another name | 1975 SJ , 1975 VH 2 , 1984 SV 4 , 1989 VG |
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. |
(6216) San Jose is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 30 September 1975 by the American astronomer scolding John bus at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Californian city of San José at the southern end of San Francisco Bay .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid San Jose: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid San Jose in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6216) San Jose in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).