(10233) Le Creusot
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Asteroid (10233) Le Creusot |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7261 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0873 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4880 AU - 2.9642 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5818 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 182.5753 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 140.1984 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.04 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 6.081 ± 0.188 km |
| Albedo | 0.301 ± 0.093 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jean-Claude Merlin |
| Date of discovery | 5th December 1997 |
| Another name | 2691 PL , 1999 CW 20 |
| 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. | |
(10233) Le Creusot is an asteroid of the main belt discovered on December 5, 1997 by the French amateur astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin at the observatory in the commune of Le Creusot ( IAU code 504) in Burgundy (France).
The asteroid was named on March 2, 1999 after the hometown of the discoverer, the municipality of Le Creusot in the French region of Burgundy.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Le Creusot: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10233) Le Creusot in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10233) Le Creusot in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).