(8241) Agrius
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Asteroid (8241) Agrius |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1363 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0418 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.9216 AU - 5.3510 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.3486 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.64 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.16 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 11.3 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | 19th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 SE 1 , 1992 GU 3 , 1998 YJ 30 |
| 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. | |
(8241) Agrius 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 .
(8241) Agrius was discovered on September 19, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675). It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological Greek hero Agrios , King of Kalydon , a son of King Porthaon and father of Thersites , who fought on the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Agrius: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Agrius in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8241) Agrius in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).