(6594) Tasman
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Asteroid (6594) Tasman |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| family | Gefion family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7780 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1627 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3261 AU - 3.2299 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.7701 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 194.8956 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 124.3039 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.63 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.86 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Antonin Mrkos |
| Date of discovery | June 25, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 MM 1 , 1991 GD 1 |
| 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. | |
(6594) Tasman is an asteroid of the main belt . It was discovered on June 25, 1987 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory ( IAU code 046) near Český Krumlov .
The asteroid was named after the Dutch navigator and explorer Abel Tasman (1603-1659), who was the first European to set foot in New Zealand in 1642 and who discovered the Australian island of Tasmania .
Web links
- Asteroid Tasman: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tasman in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6594) Tasman in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).