(8600) Arundinaceus
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Asteroid (8600) Arundinaceus |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4410 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1570 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0578 AU - 2.8243 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9589 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 71.8054 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 64.3327 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | October 22, 2020 |
| Sidereal period | 3.81 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.409 (± 0.289) km |
| Albedo | 0.173 (± 0.025) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 30, 1973 |
| Another name | 3060 T-2 , 3317 T-3 |
| 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. | |
(8600) Arundinaceus is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 30, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 4.409 (± 0.289) km and the albedo to be 0.173 (± 0.025).
(8600) Arundinaceus is named after the great reed warbler, whose scientific name is Acrocephalus arundinaceus . At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the reed warbler was on the Dutch Red List of Endangered Birds. The first letters of the asteroids (8585) to (8600) form the phrase Per aspera ad astra .
Web links
- (8600) Arundinaceus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8600) Arundinaceus in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Database with the assignment of 12,487 asteroids to asteroid groups (English)
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, 6th edition, page 645 (English)