(9839) Crabbegat
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Asteroid (9839) Crabbegat |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4657 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1057 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2052 AU - 2.7263 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.0090 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 121.9098 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 147.0253 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | August 30, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 3.87 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 11, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 CT 2 , 1978 RN 4 , 1989 LQ |
| 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. | |
(9839) Crabbegat is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on February 11, 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). The asteroid had already been sighted on September 5, 1978 under the provisional designation 1978 RN 4 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj .
(9839) Crabbegat was named on November 20, 2002 after the small, idyllic street Chemin du Crabbegat / Crabbegatweg , which is located in Uccle / Ukkel in the Brussels-Capital Region at the Parc de Wolvendael / Wolvendael Park and near the Royal Observatory of Belgium is located.
See also
Web links
- (9839) Crabbegat in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9839) Crabbegat 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 (9839) Crabbegat according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (9839) Crabbegat on minorplanetcenter.net (English)