(6569) Ondaatje
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Asteroid (6569) Ondaatje |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Cupid type |
| Major semi-axis | 1.6261 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2208 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.2670 AU - 1.9852 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 22.6394 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 111.4934 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 167.2808 ° |
| Sidereal period | 2.07 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5,959 h |
| Absolute brightness | 16.4 mag |
| Spectral class | Sr |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jean Mueller |
| Date of discovery | June 22, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 MO |
| 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. | |
(6569) Ondaatje is a near-Earth asteroid of the Cupid type , which was discovered on June 22, 1993 by the American astronomer Jean Mueller at the Palomar Observatory ( observatory code 675) in California .
The asteroid was named on June 13, 2006 after the Sri Lankan- born Canadian writer and poet Michael Ondaatje (* 1943), whose novel The English Patient was filmed in 1996 and was successful nine times at the 1997 Academy Awards .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ondaatje: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ondaatje in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6569) Ondaatje in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).