(9472) Bruges
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Asteroid (9472) Bruges |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0568 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1636 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5566 AU - 3.5570 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.0521 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 178.2654 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 129.3086 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.34 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.04 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 OD 24 , 1976 KH 2 , 1981 JS 5 , 3025 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. | |
(9472) Bruges is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 July 1998 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 was named after the Belgian city of Bruges , the capital of the province of West Flanders and the episcopal seat of the Catholic Church for the diocese of Bruges .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bruges: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bruges in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9472) Bruges in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).