(9325) Stonehenge
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Asteroid (9325) Stonehenge |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4292 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0669 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2667 AU - 2.5916 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.8952 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 211.5866 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 302.1019 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.79 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 3, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 GG 4 , 1970 EM 2 , 1993 KF 2 |
| 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. | |
(9325) Stonehenge is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 3, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is part of the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
(9325) Stonehenge was on 24 November 2007 after Stonehenge named, one in the Neolithic built and at least until the Bronze Age used Megalithstruktur near Amesbury in Wiltshire , England , about 13 kilometers north of Salisbury , which for since 1986 World Heritage counts .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Stonehenge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Stonehenge in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9325) Stonehenge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)