(10071) Paraguay
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Asteroid (10071) Paraguay |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3182 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1156 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0502 AU - 2.5862 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.7963 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 270.5338 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 263.9537 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.53 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.771 ± 0.094 km |
| Albedo | 0.332 ± 0.048 |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 EZ 2 , 1980 RE 8 , 1995 WC 8 |
| 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. | |
(10071) Paraguay is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on November 25, 2015 after the South American country Paraguay , which borders Brazil , Argentina and Bolivia and which gained independence in 1811 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Paraguay: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10071) Paraguay in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10071) Paraguay in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).