(10093) Diesel
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Asteroid (10093) Diesel |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3936 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1059 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1402 AU - 2.6471 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.8027 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 146.4323 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 138.1522 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.70 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.25 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
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| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 18, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WX 1 , 1992 DV 2 |
| 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. | |
(10093) diesel is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 November 1990 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 is part of the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), the inventor of the diesel engine named after him .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Diesel: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10093) Diesel in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10093) Diesel in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).