(9500) Camelot
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Asteroid (9500) Camelot |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5969 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1651 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1680 AU - 3.0256 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.7436 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 194.3448 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 260.7968 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | May 10, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 4.18 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.49 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1281 T-2 , 1990 WP 4 |
| 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. | |
(9500) Camelot is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong. The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (9500) Camelot are almost identical to those of the smaller, if one assumes the absolute brightness of 16.6 compared to 14.4, asteroids (413077) 2001 SK 321 .
(9500) Camelot was named after Camelot on November 11, 2000 , the court of King Arthur from the Arthurian legend . On the same day a few more asteroids from the 2nd Trojan survey were named after names from the Arthurian legend , for example (9499) Excalibur , (9501) Ywain , (9502) Gaimar , (9503) Agrawain and (9504) Lionel . As early as 1973, a lunar crater on the eastern front of the moon was named by astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission as a landing site after Camelot, and in 1982 a rift valley on Saturn's moon Mimas : Camelot Chasma .
See also
Web links
- (9500) Camelot in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9500) Camelot in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (9500) Camelot according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9500) Camelot in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ^ Lunar crater Camelot in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- ^ Rift Camelot in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS