(8558) Hack
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Asteroid (8558) Hack |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1284 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2100 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4713 AU - 3.7855 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.2856 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 39.6713 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 307.1338 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.84 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Luciano Tesi Andrea Boattini |
| Date of discovery | August 1, 1995 |
| Another name | 1995 PC, 1991 XS 6 |
| 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. | |
(8558) Hack is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 1 August 1995 by the Italian astronomer Luciano Tesi and Andrea Boattini the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory ( IAU code 104) in Tuscany was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Italian astrophysicist and science journalist Margherita Hack (* 1922; † 2013), who headed the Trieste Astronomical Observatory from 1964 to 1987 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hack: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hack in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8558) Hack in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).