(6543) Senna
Asteroid (6543) Senna |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Inner main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.2757 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2143 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7880 AU - 2.7633 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1710 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 283.4246 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 85.8241 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.43 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.74 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 3.390 ± 0.078 km |
Albedo | 0.337 ± 0.037 |
Rotation period | 3.30 h |
Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
C. Shoemaker E. Shoemaker |
Date of discovery | October 11, 1985 |
Another name | 1985 TP 3 , 1978 SB 2 |
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(6543) Senna is a main inner belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1985 by the American astronomers Carolyn Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California .
The asteroid was named after the Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna (1960-1994), who was Formula 1 world champion three times between 1988 and 1991 and had a fatal accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix on the Imola circuit .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Senna: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Senna in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6543) Senna in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).