(6827) Wombat
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Asteroid (6827) wombat |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5986 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1543 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1975 AU - 2.997 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.9050 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 356.6516 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 82.3117 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | May 3, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 4.19 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.48 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.842 (± 0.185) km |
| Albedo | 0.287 (± 0.050) |
| Rotation period | 40.132 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | September 27, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 SN 4 , 1986 TG 6 , 1986 XB |
| 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. | |
(6827) Wombat is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 September 1990 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Takeshi Urata at Nihondaira Observatory ( IAU code 385) in Shizuoka Prefecture on the island of Honshu was discovered.
The celestial body belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
The asteroid was named on September 28, 1999 after the wombats , a family of marsupial mammals (Metatheria) that live in Australia and live as cave-digging herbivores .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ (6827) Wombat in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Web links
- (6827) Wombat in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6827) Wombat in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (6827) Wombat according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)