(7933) Magritte
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Asteroid (7933) Magritte |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3286 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0827 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1360 AU - 2.5211 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.3985 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 203.1892 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 51.8545 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.52 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.26 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 3, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 GP 4 , 1976 UJ 8 |
| 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. | |
(7933) Magritte is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 3, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile was discovered. The asteroid had already been sighted in October 1976 under the provisional designation 1976 UJ6 at the Kiso Observatory (IAU code 381).
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.
(7933) Magritte was on 11 February 1998 by the Belgian painter of Surrealism René Magritte named (1898-1967), one of the most important representatives of Belgian surrealism.
See also
Web links
- (7933) Magritte in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (7933) Magritte 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 (7933) Magritte according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (7933) Magritte on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)