(6997) Laomedon
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Asteroid (6997) Laomedon |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 5 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1769 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1011 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.6536 AU - 5.7002 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 19.1172 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 195.3092 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 57.6671 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.78 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.08 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 37.549 (± 0.216) km |
| Albedo | 0.087 (± 0.011) |
| Absolute brightness | 10.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Cornelis van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | October 16, 1977 |
| Another name | 3104 T-3 , 1989 SS 4 |
| 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. | |
(6997) Laomedon is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit .
(6997) Laomedon was discovered on October 16, 1977 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 5 .
The asteroid was named on August 28, 1996 after the mythological Trojan king Laomedon , father of the Trojan king Priam .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Laomedon: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Laomedon in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6997) Laomedon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).