(10244) Thuringian Forest
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Asteroid (10244) Thuringian Forest |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.404 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.102 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.159 AU - 2.648 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.5 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 28.2 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 27.9 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.73 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.346 km |
| Albedo | 0.190 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | C. J. and I. v. Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1960 |
| Another name | 4668 PL , 1990 TB 14 |
| 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. | |
(10244) Thuringian Forest is an asteroid of the inner main belt . It was discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California and has a diameter of a good three and a half kilometers.
The asteroid was named after the Thuringian low mountain range Thuringian Forest .
See also
Web links
- (10244) Thuringian Forest in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10244) Thuringian Forest in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10244) Thuringian Forest according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)