(69228) Mount Cameroon
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Asteroid (69228) Cameroon Mountain |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 1.8969 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0697 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7647 AU - 2.0290 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 22.0664 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 184.7306 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 290.0668 ° |
| Sidereal period | 2.61 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 23.3843 h |
| Absolute brightness | 16.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | C. J. and I. v. Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | October 16, 1977 |
| Another name | 5173 T-3 , 1998 WA |
| 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. | |
(69228) Cameroon Mountain is an asteroid of the main inner belt . It was discovered on October 16, 1977 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid was named on July 22, 2013 after the Cameroon Mountain , an active volcano in western Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea .
See also
Web links
- (69228) Kamerunberg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (69228) Kamerunberg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (69228) Kamerunberg according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)