(8001) Ramsden
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Asteroid (8001) Ramsden |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1370 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1677 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6108 AU - 3.6632 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.6838 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.82 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | A. Mrkos |
| Date of discovery | 4th October 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 TR 3 , 1969 RQ 1 , 1981 XC 1 , 1991 RK 12 |
| 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. | |
(8001) Ramsden is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 October 1986 by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at Kleť Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 046).
The celestial body is named after the English optician and inventor Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ramsden: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ramsden in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8001) Ramsden in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).