(98494) Marsupilami
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Asteroid (98494) Marsupilami |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3703 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1552 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0024 AU - 2.7381 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5677 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 54.6304 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 1.2037 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.35 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 3 km |
| Absolute brightness | 16.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jean-Claude Merlin |
| Date of discovery | October 27, 2000 |
| Another name | 2000 UN 111 |
| 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. | |
(98494) Marsupilami is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered by the French computer scientist and amateur astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin on October 27, 2000 at the observatory in Le Creusot , Saône-et-Loire department , ( IAU code 504).
The mean diameter of the asteroid is estimated to be just over three kilometers.
(98494) Marsupilami belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
(98494) Marsupilami was named on September 19, 2005 at the suggestion of Jean-Claude Merlin after Marsupilami , a comic figure invented and drawn by André Franquin . An asteroid was named after Franquin in 2017: (293985) Franquin .
Web links
- (98494) Marsupilami in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (98494) Marsupilami 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 (98494) Marsupilami according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Une planète nommée Marsupilami . Message about the asteroid on franquin.com (French)