(10001) Palermo
Asteroid (10001) Palermo |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Vesta family |
Major semi-axis | 2,377 AU |
eccentricity | 0.134 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.059 AU - 2.695 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.4 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 40.2 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 357.8 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | July 16, 2017 |
Sidereal period | 3.66 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.31 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 4.123 ± 0.657 km |
Albedo | 0.341 ± 0.134 |
Rotation period | 213 h 22 min |
Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
history | |
Explorer | LI Chernych |
Date of discovery | October 8, 1969 |
Another name | 1969 TM 1 , 1991 RS 27 |
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. |
(10001) Palermo is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 8, 1969 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named on January 9, 2001 after Palermo , the capital of the Autonomous Region of Sicily and the metropolitan city of Palermo , on the north coast of Sicily .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Palermo: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10001) Palermo in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10001) Palermo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).