(10119) Remarque

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Asteroid
(10119) Remarque
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Themis family
Major semi-axis 3.1274  AU
eccentricity 0.1366
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7002 AU - 3.5546 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.5189 °
Length of the ascending node 83.1395 °
Argument of the periapsis 91.6524 °
Sidereal period 5.53 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.84 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 6.8107 h
Absolute brightness 13.0 likes
history
Explorer EW Elst
Date of discovery 18th December 1992
Another name 1992 YC 1 , 1996 RL 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.

(10119) Remarque is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 December 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code 010) in the south of France was discovered.

The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .

(10119) Remarque was named on July 28, 1999 after the German writer Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), who became world-famous mainly through his anti-war novel In the West Nothing New , and whose work was burned in Germany as “harmful and undesirable literature” were.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. (10119) Remarque in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

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