(9392) Cavaillon
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Asteroid (9392) Cavaillon |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4437 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1268 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1337 AU - 2.7537 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.4758 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 150.1902 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 229.2810 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.82 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.05 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.524 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 PK 7 , 1979 UO 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. | |
(9392) Cavaillon is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 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 Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
(9392) Cavaillon was named on November 20, 2002 after the French commune of Cavaillon in the Vaucluse département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , which has been known since Roman times for the cultivation and trade of early vegetables and early fruit and therefore is sometimes also called the capital of melons .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Cavaillon: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Cavaillon in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9392) Cavaillon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9392) Cavaillon in the AstDyS-2 database (English)