(8423) Macau
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Asteroid (8423) Macau |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1332 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2543 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3365 AU - 3.9229 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3835 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 144.9810 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 242.7273 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.83 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program |
| Date of discovery | January 11, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 AO 24 , 1990 VF 10 , 1992 EA 28 |
| 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. | |
(8423) Macao is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which on 11 January 1997, under the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the 60/90-cm Schmidt telescope of the Xinglong Station ( IAU code 327) in the province of Hebei was discovered .
The asteroid was named after the Macau Peninsula on October 5, 1998 .
Web links
- (8423) Macao in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8423) Macao 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 (8423) Macau according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)