(8088) Australia
Asteroid (8088) Australia |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.2891 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1515 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9423 AU - 2.6358 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5235 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 169.1718 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 210.1265 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | February 2, 2015 |
Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.68 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Galina Kastel , Lyudmyla Schuravlowa |
Date of discovery | September 23, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 SL 27 , 1983 RG 8 , 1987 WA 2 , 1988 AS, 1990 SV 28 , 1990 TD 15 , 1990 TX 15 |
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. |
(8088) Australia is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered by the Soviet astronomers Galina Kastel and Ljudmyla Schuravlowa on September 23, 1990 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). The asteroid had already been sighted on September 11, 1983 with the provisional designation 1983 RG 8 at this observatory, as well as on November 26, 1987 (1987 WA 2 ) and on January 11, 1988 (1988 AS) at the Karl-Schwarzschild- Observatory in the Tautenburg Forest .
(8088) Australia was named after the continent of Australia on October 5, 1998 at the suggestion of Galina Kastel as an honor for her visit there. An albedo feature in the so-called Bach Quadrangle on Mercury was also named " Australia " in 1976 .
See also
Web links
- (8088) Australia in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8088) Australia 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 (8088) Australia 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 from (8088) Australia on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The Albedo Feature Australia in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)