(9482) Rubéndarío
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Asteroid (9482) Rubéndarío |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2895 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1862 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8631 AU - 2.7159 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7988 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 301.8298 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 15.0502 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4065 PL , 1953 Item 3 , 1991 RN 41 , 1994 EZ 8 |
| 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. | |
(9482) Rubéndarío is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named on April 2, 1999 after the Nicaraguan writer and diplomat Rubén Darío (1867-1916), who is considered the founder of modernism in Latin America and was one of the first Central American writers to write in Spanish, giving the Central American people a voice .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Rubéndarío: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Rubéndarío in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9482) Rubéndarío in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).