(6320) Bremen
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Asteroid (6320) Bremen |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4406 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1746 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0146 AU - 2.8666 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3239 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 317.2038 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 348.9943 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.81 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 10.133 ± 0.191 km |
| Albedo | 0.090 ± 0.010 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | January 15, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 AL 3 , 1974 SL 4 , 1989 RD 4 , 1993 RJ 2 |
| 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. | |
(6320) Bremen is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 15, 1991 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named by Börngen after the city of Bremen because Wilhelm Olbers and Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the asteroids Pallas , Juno and Vesta there at the beginning of the 19th century . Bremen was also honored on the 75th anniversary of the Bremen-based Olbers Society .
The celestial body belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa, which is also known as the Hertha family (after (135) Hertha ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (6320) Bremen in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Announcements on the history of astronomy No. 8 (PDF; 64.6 kB) 1996: "Newly named planetoids - The small planet (6320) Bremen"
- (6320) Bremen (1991 AL3) in the JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- Orbit Diagram (6320) Bremen (1991 AL3) in the JPL Small-Body Database Browser