(100936) Mekong
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Asteroid (100936) Mekong |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4077 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1312 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0918 AU - 2.7236 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.6047 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 283.4848 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 358.2963 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | November 15, 2020 |
| Sidereal period | 3.74 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.11 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | June 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 ME 43 , 2002 PR 74 |
| 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. | |
(100936) Mekong is an asteroid located in the inner main belt . It was discovered on June 26, 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The mean distance from the sun ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of (100936) Mekong are within the respective limit values defined for the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
(100936) Mekong was on March 12, 2012 after the Southeast Asian river Mekong named the six countries are crossed.
Web links
- (100936) Mekong in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (100936) Mekong 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 (100936) Mekong according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)