(6616) Plotinos
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Asteroid (6616) Plotinos |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4152 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1226 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1192 AU - 2.7112 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.0966 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 188.2827 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 214.3634 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.75 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.16 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.054 (± 0.170) km |
| Albedo | 0.205 (± 0.029) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. van Houten I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | March 25, 1971 |
| Another name | 1175 T-1 , 1969 VJ > 3 , 1984 UL > 4 , 1991 NP > 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. | |
(6616) Plotinos is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 25, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery happened during the 1st Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named after the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus (205–270), the founder and best-known representative of Neoplatonism .
The celestial body belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Plotinos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Plotinos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6616) Plotinos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).