(9384) Aransio
Asteroid (9384) Aransio |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1476 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1119 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7955 AU - 3.4997 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3159 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 121.7898 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 77.9601 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.58 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.77 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | October 9, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 TP 26 , 1977 XL 3 , 1983 YB 1 |
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. |
(9384) Aransio is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 October 1993 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 belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(9384) Aransio was named on April 2, 1999 after the old name Arausio of the city of Orange in the Vaucluse department . The name refers to a local Ligurian-Celtic water god.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Aransio: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Aransio in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9384) Aransio in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9384) Aransio in the AstDyS-2 database (English)