(6996) Alvensleben
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Asteroid (6996) Alvensleben |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.4268 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0982 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0904 AU - 3.7631 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.0987 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 157.8583 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 117.2629 ° |
| Sidereal period | 6.34 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.10 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 18.809 (± 0.149) km |
| Albedo | 0.060 (± 0.010) |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten I. v. Houten-Groeneveld Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 2222 T-2 , 1977 EV 4 , 1977 FV, 1986 TR 10 |
| 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. | |
(6996) Alvensleben is an asteroid of the outer main asteroid belt , which was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch observing team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
Alvensleben moves at a distance of 3.0867 ( perihelion ) to 3.7568 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 6.330 years around the sun . The orbit is 4.0648 ° inclined to the ecliptic , the orbital eccentricity is 0.0979.
The name of the asteroid was chosen in honor of Bertha von Alvensleben (1859–1912), an ancestor of the Von Alvensleben family , who had been associated with Saxony-Anhalt since the 12th century .
See also
Web links
- Planetoid (6996) Alvensleben . In: Family v. Alvensleben eV
- (6996) Alvensleben in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6996) Alvensleben in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (6996) Alvensleben according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)