(9484) Wanambi
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Asteroid (9484) Wanambi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0897 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1688 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5683 AU - 3.6112 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.9234 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 89.7073 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 246.6107 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.43 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.95 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 18.5966 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4590 PL , 1954 MY, 1982 UT 4 , 1998 QX 46 |
| 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. | |
(9484) Wanambi 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 belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(9484) Wanambi was named on April 2, 1999 after Wanambi , one of the names of the rainbow snake , which is a central figure in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines and their dream time .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9484) Wanambi in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Wanambi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Wanambi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9484) Wanambi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).