(9142) Rhesus
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Asteroid (9142) Rhesus |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 5 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1794 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1296 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.5080 AU - 5.8509 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.7958 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.79 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 10.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | October 16, 1977 |
| Another name | 5191 T-3, 1988 RX |
| 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. | |
(9142) Rhesus 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 .
(9142) Rhesus was discovered on October 16, 1977 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 5 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological Thracian hero Rhesus , the king of the Thracians , who took part in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans and was killed in their sleep by Odysseus and Diomedes with his twelve companions .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Rhesus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Rhesus in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9142) Rhesus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).